John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)
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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 más 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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Obras de John Maynard Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: With the Economic Consequences of the Peace (Classics of World… (2017) 66 copias
A Treatise on Money: The Pure Theory of Money and The Applied Theory of Money. Complete Set (1930) 53 copias
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes AND Essays In Persuasion by John Maynard… (2009) 7 copias
Politici ed economisti 6 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 13): The General Theory and After Part 1, Preparation (1973) 6 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 14): The General Theory and After Part 2, Defence and Development (1973) 6 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 29): The General Theory and After, A Supplement (1987) 4 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 15): Activities '06-'14: India and Cambridge (1971) 4 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 16): Activities '14-'19: The Treasury and Versailles (1971) 3 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 17): Activities '20-'22: Treaty Revision and Reconstruction (1978) 3 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 25): Activities '40-'44: Shaping the Post-War World: The Clearing… (1980) 3 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 18): Activities '22-'32: The End of Reparations (1978) 3 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 12): Economic Articles and Correspondence, Investment and… (1983) 3 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 21): Activities '31-'39: World Crises and Policies in Britain &… (2012) 2 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 20): Activities '29-'31: Rethinking Employment and Unemployment… (2012) 2 copias
Inflação e deflação 2 copias
Scope & Methods of Political Economy 2 copias
Keynes 2 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 19): Activities '22-'29: Return to Gold (2012) 2 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 26): Activities '41-'46: Bretton Woods (1980) 2 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 23): Activities '40-'43: External War Finance (1979) 2 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 22): Activities '39-'45: Internal War Finance (1978) 2 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 24): Activities '44-'46: The Transition to Peace (1979) 2 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 28): Social, Political and Literary Writings (2012) 2 copias
The Means to Prosperity, the Great Slump of 1930, the Economic Consequences of the Peace (2012) 2 copias
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (Volume 11): Economic Articles and Correspondence, Academic (2012) 1 copia
Os Pensadores 1 copia
Keynes [Opere di] 1 copia
Izabrana djela 1 copia
A Europa depois do Tratado 1 copia
O Fundo Monetário Internacional 1 copia
A teoria da taxa de juros 1 copia
Saggi politici 1 copia
A Europa antes da guerra 1 copia
Inediti sulla crisi 1 copia
A Short View of Russia 1 copia
Problemi novca između dva rata 1 copia
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- Nombre canónico
- Keynes, John Maynard
- Nombre legal
- Keynes, John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes
- Otros nombres
- Кейнс, Джон Мейнард
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1883-06-05
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1946-04-21
- Lugar de sepultura
- Tilton House, Firle, East Sussex, England, UK (cremated, ashes scattered)
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Firle, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom
- Causa de fallecimiento
- heart attack
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
Firle, East Sussex, England, UK - Educación
- Eton College (1902)
University of Cambridge (BA | 1904 | King's College | Mathematics) - Ocupaciones
- economist
writer - Relaciones
- 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) - Organizaciones
- Bloomsbury Group
Cambridge Apostles
Cambridge University Liberal Club (President) - Premios y honores
- Hereditary Peerage (First Baron Keynes, 1942)
Companion, Order of the Bath (1917)
Fellow, British Academy (1929)
Officer, Order of Leopold
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- Miembros
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- Popularidad
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- Valoración
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- Reseñas
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- ISBNs
- 441
- Idiomas
- 16
- Favorito
- 8
No estoy seguro de que esto sea realmente lo que Keynes quiere decir, y he tenido que ayudarme de informaciones extra para enterarme de algo. Lo cierto es que los primeros capítulos son demoledores, como si fuesen una prueba, de forma que, si los pasas sin que te aplaste el peso de la economía, quizá sobrevivas hasta el final del libro. Sólo hacia el último tercio se me empezó a hacer algo inteligible, y, sin duda, los dos o tres capítulos finales son los únicos que he logrado comprender, creo, con una relativa claridad. Es verdad que el autor avisa nada más empezar de que es un libro de teoría económica pura y dura, escrito para especialistas (aunque dice que "espero que pueda ser también comprensible para los que no lo son", lo que tampoco es muy tranquilizador), pero he tenido que hacer acopio de toda mi fuerza de voluntad para terminarlo: o el libro o yo.
A pesar de todo, y con la ayuda de las informaciones adicionales, creo que he podido entrever en algunas de sus páginas algo así como la base de las políticas económicas que hoy consideramos "progresistas" o "socialdemócratas", encaminadas a influir en la marcha de la economía, pero sin llegar a la planificación comunista. En este sentido, me ha resultado muy interesante la defensa que hace Keynes de la inversión e incluso del consumo (favorecidos ambos por las bajas tasas de interés) como generadores de trabajo y mejores salarios, y su crítica feroz al ahorro a ultranza (atesoramiento, o podría llamarse "el síndrome del Tío Gilito"), que no sirve para nada realmente. Supongo que no podía él prever cómo la situación actual ha evolucionado hacia, efectivamente, la creación de muchos puestos de trabajo, pero muchas veces de muy baja calidad, precisamente para satisfacer la demanda de consumo desbocada. En este sentido, se ha considerado que uno de sus puntos débiles es que coloca en un lugar relativamente central de su teoría a los factores psicológicos (la "propensión a consumir", por ejemplo), considerados poco "científicos" por los adictos al álgebra. Pero a mí me parece, por un lado, que la crítica es injusta: el libro estrá plagado de fórmulas matemáticas y tecnicismos abstrusos. Por otro lado, a la vista del consumismo salvaje que hoy padecemos, despreciar el componente psicológico en algo que, en definitiva, no deja de ser una actividad humana, es estar un tanto ciego. En todo caso, Keynes es la "bestia negra" de los ultraliberales, precisamente por su moderación y por la solidez científica (yo la supongo, aunque no estoy en condiciones de afirmarla) de sus argumentos.… (más)