Maynard Keynes
1883-1946

  

Educated at King's College, Cambridge and elected to the Apostles in 1903. Reputation as an economist based on his books A Treatise on Money and The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Married the Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova in 1925. Made Lord Keynes in 1942.

"He was one of the most brilliant talkers I have known. He would pounce on any remark which interested him, extend it, develop it. At the Treasury his room was opposite that of Lord Catto. This led to his being given the name of Doggo. And in his unswerving fidelity to his old friends and his affection for them there was something canine. And so was his gift for pouncing and seizing the essential and the gundog's nose which led him to recognise it instantly."
— David Garnett, from Great Friends (1979)

Published works:
Indian Currency and Finance (1913)
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
A Treatise on Probability (1921)
A Revision of the Treaty (1922)
A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)
The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill (1925)
A Short View of Russia (1925)
A Treatise on Money (2 vols., 1930)
Essays in Persuasion (1931)
Essays in Biography (1933)
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)
Two Memoirs (ed. Garnett, 1949)
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (25 vols., Royal Economic Society)