John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, the 1st Baron Keynes CB FBA, was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly shaped modern macroeconomics and governmental economic policy. His landmark work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, originally published in 1936, stands as a cornerstone in economic literature. This monumental text delves into the complexities of economic systems, the nature of employment,...

The essential writings of the 20th century's most influential economist, collected in one volume. John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist, and one of the most influential thinkers, of the twentieth century. He overturned the orthodoxy that markets were optimally self-regulating, and instead argued for state intervention to ensure full employment and economic stability. The Essential Keynes is the...

A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics. First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, as an official representative of the British Treasury, and he simultaneously sat as deputy for the Chancellor of...