Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people are familiar with British economist John Maynard Keynes. His contributions to modern macroeconomics, such as the idea ...

In 1930, British economist John Keynes wrote an essay called "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren." In the essay, he made the now-famous assertion that his grandchildren's generation (meaning ...

One of the most misunderstood economists haunting the global economy is John Maynard Keynes, a truly friendly ghost who many have transformed into a poltergeist. Keynes was front and center in a ...

“Investing is intolerably boring and over-exacting to anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct; whilst he who has it must pay to this propensity the appropriate toll.” – John Maynard ...

Richard Deacon, author of the definitive history of the Keynes' Cambridge Apostles undergraduate boys' club, saw the personal roots of Keynes’ economics clearly. In his book The Cambridge Apostles he ...

Keynes didn't see economic efficiency, social justice, and individual liberty as mutually exclusive options on a menu — He ...

On Monday, I was on Leonard Lopate’s WNYC radio show talking about my recent article on John Maynard Keynes. (The piece is no longer behind a firewall. You can read it here, and listen to the ...

I admit I came to Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes with a certain prejudice. I knew Richard Davenport-Hines as an accomplished writer and biographer. But he has no background in ...

Editor’s note: Last night on the NewsHour, we had a look at the legacy of economist John Maynard Keynes, using as our vehicle an amusing rap song about the legendary economist and thinker. We’d hoped ...

The great economist Keynes was also, inter alia, a farmer, picture dealer, statesman, theatrical manager and book collector Credit: Photo: AP Economist John Maynard Keynes died on April 21, 1946. This ...

Many people are familiar with British economist John Maynard Keynes. His contributions to modern macroeconomics, such as the idea that boom-and-bust cycles should be moderated by government ...