John Maynard Keynes
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John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was an English economist, born in Cambridge and educated at Eton and King’s College, Cambridge, where he spent much of his career. After a spell at the India Office he joined the Treasury during the First World War, and resigned from the British delegation at the Paris Peace Conference in protest at the reparations demanded of Germany, setting out his objections in The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919). A member of the Bloomsbury Group, he married the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova in 1925. His books A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) and A Treatise on Money (1930) led to The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936), which transformed economic thinking about unemployment and the role of government. During the Second World War he advised the Treasury again and led the British delegation at the Bretton Woods conference of 1944. He died in Sussex in 1946.
