John Maynard Keynes The Great Economic Theorist
John Maynard Keynes was born on Tuesday June 5, 1883 at his 6 Harvey Road home in Cambridge, England. ... His father, John Neville Keynes, was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge teaching logic and political economy. His mother, Florence Ada Brown, was a highly successful author, and a great pioneer in social reform.1 His parents greatly influenced his growth in the knowledge of the economic and political world, and sent him to the University of Cambridge where he received his undergraduate in Mathematical Tripos. In August 1925, John Maynard Keynes married Lydia Lopokova.2 All throughout Keynes’s life, he wrote essays and critiques on the economics of the current world. His theories were controversial, and contrasted with the current day economic theories. ... Keynes’s ideas created a new branch of economics called macroeconomics, which is still used by most capitalist governments today. John Maynard Keynes was one of the greatest economists of all time, as well as one of the most influential economic thinkers that the twentieth century has so far produced. John Maynard Keynes’s theories on modern economics were designed to modify the original theories of economics, which he felt no longer, had as much relevance with the currently changing economic systems.