Know the economists (Ep. 04): J.M. Keynes (John Maynard Keynes), The Man Who Saved Capitalism from Itself
Know the economists (Ep. 04) J. M. Keynes - The Man Who Saved Capitalism from Itself.
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) is the man who "saved capitalism from itself." If the previous economists were about how the world works in theory, Keynes was about what to do when the world stops working.
He is the father of Macroeconomics—the study of the economy as a whole. He was a brilliant mathematician, a patron of the arts, and part of the famous "Bloomsbury Group" (a circle of radical writers and artists like Virginia Woolf).
He made a fortune for himself (and his college at Cambridge) by trading currencies and commodities from his bed every morning before he got up.

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