John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)
Autor(a) de The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
About the Author
John Maynard Keynes, an English economist, is regarded as the most important and influential economist of the twentieth century, if not of all time. A brilliant child, he wrestled with the economic meaning of interest before he was 5 years old. He excelled both as a student and as a member of the mostrar mais debating team at Eton. His reputation at King's College at Cambridge University was such that he was invited to weekly breakfasts with economist A. C. Pigou, and even Alfred Marshall begged him to become a professional economist. He was elected president of the Union, the most important nongovernmental debating society in the world, and his close friends included the intellectual members of the Bloomsbury group. Keynes was described as a phenomenon---and all of this took place before he graduated from Cambridge. After graduating in 1905, Keynes took a civil service post in India. Bored with his job, he resigned and returned to Cambridge to teach. In 1912 he assumed the editorship of the Economic Journal, the leading journal in Britain at the time, continuing in the post for 33 years. His first major book, Indian Currency and Finance (1913), was an immediate success. He took part in the Paris Peace Conference as a representative of the Treasury. Later he held several other government advisory posts, served as a director of the Bank of England, and was president of an insurance company. In addition, Keynes was a noted patron of the arts and married the most beautiful and popular ballerina of his era. As if this weren't enough, he managed to amass a small fortune by investing in stocks and foreign currencies in his spare time. At the Paris Peace Conference, Keynes became so dismayed by the harsh terms imposed on Germany in the Treaty of Versailles that he resigned in anger several days before the treaty was signed. He then wrote The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), which outlined the folly of the treaty. Being a man of many interests, Keynes next took a brief break from economics to publish A Treatise on Probability (1921), which Bertrand Russell (see Vols. 4 and 5) described as "impossible to praise too highly." Keynes's A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) was a rather technical book that questioned the value of the gold standard over a managed paper currency. A Treatise on Money (1930), which explored the business cycle, was followed by Essays in Persuasion (1931) and Essays in Biography (1933). The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published in 1936, was Keynes's crowning achievement, and it took the world by storm. According to Keynes, the economy could be thought of as being divided into consumer, investment (or business), government, and foreign sectors. This was hardly a novel idea, but Keynes went on to postulate the exact nature of expenditures in each sector, especially the spending patterns of the consumer sector, which he portrayed by using a graph he called a "consumption function." He reasoned that fluctuations in total economic activity could be traced to instability in the business sector, which had a multiplier effect on the rest of the economy. The relationship specified in The General Theory were tantalizing to economists, because they could be tested and empirically verified. Subsequent research largely confirmed Keynes's propositions. Soon governments, including that of the United States, began to develop a set of national income accounts to provide estimates of gross national product and national income. The General Theory was also popular because it offered policy prescriptions to help deal with the problems of depression, recession, and unemployment. Today the term "Keynesian" is used to describe individuals or policies that use taxation and government spending to affect aggregate economic performance. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: With the Economic Consequences of the Peace (Classics of World… (2017) 66 exemplares
A Treatise on Money: The Pure Theory of Money and The Applied Theory of Money. Complete Set (1930) 53 exemplares
The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill 10 exemplares
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes AND Essays In Persuasion by John Maynard… (2009) 7 exemplares
Politici ed economisti 6 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 13): The General Theory and After Part 1, Preparation (1973) 6 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 14): The General Theory and After Part 2, Defence and Development (1973) 6 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 29): The General Theory and After, A Supplement (1987) 4 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 15): Activities '06-'14: India and Cambridge (1971) 4 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 17): Activities '20-'22: Treaty Revision and Reconstruction (1978) 3 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 12): Economic Articles and Correspondence, Investment and… (1983) 3 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 16): Activities '14-'19: The Treasury and Versailles (1971) 3 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 25): Activities '40-'44: Shaping the Post-War World: The Clearing… (1980) 3 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 18): Activities '22-'32: The End of Reparations (1978) 3 exemplares
Keynes 2 exemplares
Inflação e deflação 2 exemplares
The Means to Prosperity, the Great Slump of 1930, the Economic Consequences of the Peace (2012) 2 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 20): Activities '29-'31: Rethinking Employment and Unemployment… (2012) 2 exemplares
The Means to Prosperity, booklet, soft covers 2 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 28): Social, Political and Literary Writings (2012) 2 exemplares
La Teoría Económica de John Maynard Keynes 2 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 24): Activities '44-'46: The Transition to Peace (1979) 2 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 22): Activities '39-'45: Internal War Finance (1978) 2 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 23): Activities '40-'43: External War Finance (1979) 2 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 26): Activities '41-'46: Bretton Woods (1980) 2 exemplares
Scope & Methods of Political Economy 2 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 19): Activities '22-'29: Return to Gold (2012) 2 exemplares
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 21): Activities '31-'39: World Crises and Policies in Britain &… (2012) 2 exemplares
Keynes and Kearns - Am I a Liberal? 1 exemplar
Os Pensadores 1 exemplar
Keynes [Opere di] 1 exemplar
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 11): Economic Articles and Correspondence, Academic (2012) 1 exemplar
Izabrana djela 1 exemplar
Inediti sulla crisi 1 exemplar
A distinção entre poupança e investimento 1 exemplar
A Europa depois do Tratado 1 exemplar
Considerações sogre o padrão-ouro 1 exemplar
O Fundo Monetário Internacional 1 exemplar
A teoria da taxa de juros 1 exemplar
Saggi politici 1 exemplar
A Europa antes da guerra 1 exemplar
Keynes / Kalecki (Coleção Os Pensadores) 1 exemplar
A Short View of Russia 1 exemplar
Alfred Marshall, 1842-1924 : a memoir 1 exemplar
Problemi novca između dva rata 1 exemplar
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE; & A REVISION OF THE TREATY (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book 950) (2014) 1 exemplar
Os pensadores: Ensaios econômicos 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Nome legal
- Keynes, John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes
- Outros nomes
- Кейнс, Джон Мейнард
- Data de nascimento
- 1883-06-05
- Data de falecimento
- 1946-04-21
- Localização do túmulo
- Tilton House, Firle, East Sussex, England, UK (cremated, ashes scattered)
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
- Local de falecimento
- Firle, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom
- Causa da morte
- heart attack
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
Firle, East Sussex, England, UK - Educação
- Eton College (1902)
University of Cambridge (BA | 1904 | King's College | Mathematics) - Ocupações
- economist
writer - Relações
- Keynes, John Neville (father)
Lopokova, Lydia (wife)
Keynes, Geoffrey (brother)
Keynes, Quentin (nephew)
Keynes, Milo (nephew)
Keynes, Richard (nephew) (mostrar todos 12)
Keynes, Simon (grandnephew)
Keynes, Randal (grandnephew)
Grant, Duncan (lover)
Sprott, W. J. H. (lover)
Woolf, Virginia (friend)
Woolf, Leonard (friend) - Organizações
- Bloomsbury Group
Cambridge Apostles
Cambridge University Liberal Club (President) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Hereditary Peerage (First Baron Keynes, 1942)
Companion, Order of the Bath (1917)
Fellow, British Academy (1929)
Officer, Order of Leopold
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- ISBN
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