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Keynes
[ keynz ]
noun
- John Maynard, 1st Baron, 1883–1946, English economist and writer.
Keynes
/ ɪԳ /
noun
- KeynesJohn Maynard18831946MEnglishSOCIAL SCIENCE: economist John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes. 1883–1946, English economist. In The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) he argued that unemployment was characteristic of an unregulated market economy and therefore to achieve a high level of employment it was necessary for governments to manipulate the overall level of demand through monetary and fiscal policies (including, when appropriate, deficit financing). He helped to found the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank
Derived Forms
- ˈԱˌ, noun
- ˈԱ, adjectivenoun
Example Sentences
A man shot dead by police officers at Milton Keynes railway station has been named.
Officers were called to Milton Keynes Central at 12:55 BST on Tuesday to reports of a man carrying a firearm at the station on Elder Gate, before a shot was fired.
Shazna Muzammil, a councillor and Conservative group leader at Milton Keynes City Council, said she was "deeply shocked" by what had happened.
As John Maynard Keynes said of the challenges of overpopulation, the “chaining up of the one devil may, if we are careless, only serve to lose another still fiercer and more intractable.”
Keynes begged them to go down the first path, and warned that if they went down the second, it would simply stoke up more hatred and lead to World War II.
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