John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (pronounced k?nz / kAnze), ) (June 5, 1883 – April 21, 1946) was an English economist, whose ideas had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. He is particularly remembered for advocating interventionist government policy, by which the government would use fiscal and monetary measures to aim to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions, depressions and booms. He is considered by many to be the founder of modern macroeconomics.

Influences on Keynes' works

• Arthur C. Pigou
• Alfred Marshall
• Adam Smith
• David Ricardo
• Karl Marx