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 ...

Note: Keynes, perhaps the 20th century most eminent economist, wrote the below in 1936. Its relevance, save for the newspaper beauty contest, was too striking to resist. Yes, algorithms are doing the ...

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 ...

Over the past few months, as the orderly operations of the world economy have been superseded by panic, fear, and lockdown, as the circuit breaker has paused trading on Wall Street more than once, and ...

John Maynard Keynes is often associated with government intervention, but his investment strategy reveals a die-hard capitalist, argues John Wasik. Debating the Legacy of John Maynard Keynes Editor’s ...

Discover how Keynesian and Neo-Keynesian economics differ in addressing economic growth and stability through fiscal and monetary policies.

Harvard professor and prominent Daily Beast columnist Niall Ferguson is now apologizing for saying economist John Maynard Keynes' theories about surplus and deficit spending were somehow shaped by ...

Niall Ferguson, the distinguished historian who for the past several years has increasingly abandoned his trade in favor of inept conservative punditry, stepped in it over the weekend when he told an ...

Not for one moment did I mean to suggest that Keynesian economics as a body of thought was simply a function of Keynes’ sexuality. But nor can it be true—as some of my critics apparently believe—that ...

Let me now publicly reveal my long love affair with John Maynard Keynes. Tonight, June 5 th, stationed on a barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico, I shall be raising my annual toast to the memory of ...

We are in the middle of the capitalistic order reinventing itself. By Sven Beckert Strong reactions to rising prices and misunderstandings about the value of money are rampant, our columnist says. By ...