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Keynes and was
In the last few years of his life, John Maynard Keynes was much preoccupied with the question of balance in international trade.
He was the principal author of a proposal — the so-called Keynes Plan —— for an International Clearing Union.
However, this bizarre relocation plan never materialised and when the club finally did relocate in 2003, it was to the Buckinghamshire town of Milton Keynes.
At its peak of popularity eugenics was supported by a wide variety of prominent people, including Winston Churchill, Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling and Sidney Webb.
In 1932, Hayek suggested that private investment in the public markets was a better road to wealth and economic coordination in Britain than government spending programs, as argued in a letter he co-signed with Lionel Robbins and others in an exchange of letters with John Maynard Keynes in The Times.
In 1944 he was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, after he was nominated for membership by Keynes.
During the Second World War, GCCS was based largely at Bletchley Park in present-day Milton Keynes working on, most famously, the German Enigma machine and Lorenz ciphers, but also a large number of other systems.
Prior to the publication of Keynes ' General Theory, mainstream economic thought was that the economy existed in a state of general equilibrium, meaning that the economy naturally consumes whatever it produces because the needs of consumers are always greater than the capacity of the economy to satisfy those needs.
Keynes ' theory was significant because it overturned the mainstream thought of the time and brought about a greater awareness that problems such as unemployment is not a product of laziness, but the result of a structural inadequacy in the economic system.
Prior to Keynes, a situation in which aggregate demand for goods and services did not meet supply was referred to by classical economists as a general glut, although there was disagreement among them as to whether a general glut was possible.
Keynes argued that when a glut occurred, it was the over-reaction of producers and the laying off of workers that led to a fall in demand and perpetuating the problem.
Keynes argued that the solution to the Great Depression was to stimulate the economy (" inducement to invest ") through some combination of two approaches:
However John Maynard Keynes argued that encouraging production was just as important as consumption, and he favoured the " new mercantilism ".
Keynes also noted that in the early modern period the focus on the bullion supplies was reasonable.
Babylonian thought was axiomatic and is comparable to the " ordinary logic " described by John Maynard Keynes.
In the 1920s, Keynes was seen as anti-establishment and was mainly attacked from the right.
In the " red 1930s ", many young economists favoured Marxist views, even in Cambridge, and while Keynes was engaging principally with the right to try to persuade them of the merits of more progressive policy, the most vociferous criticism against him came from the left, who saw him as a supporter of capitalism.
Joseph Schumpeter was an economist of the same age as Keynes and one of his main rivals.
After Keynes's death Schumpeter wrote a brief biographical piece called Keynes the Economist – on a personal level he was very positive about Keynes as a man ; praising his pleasant nature, courtesy and kindness.
Keynes was on occasion heard making statements which could be perceived as racist: for example, he would use the word " niggers " to refer to black people in casual conversations.

Keynes and interested
“ I suddenly realized that Keynes and all the brilliant economic students in the room were interested in the behavior of commodities ,” Drucker wrote,while I was interested in the behavior of people .”
They are all good stories ; many of them focus on the unintended consequences of the ideas of their creators, specifically Thomas Malthus and John Maynard Keynes, who have both become known as measurers, but were really more interested in unmeasurable concepts.

Keynes and general
In the 1929 general election he made a final bid to return the Liberals to the political mainstream, with an ambitious programme of state stimulation of the economy called We Can Conquer Unemployment !, largely written for him by the Liberal economist John Maynard Keynes.
In his book The Last Challenge Problem, David Miller provides a general method in accord with Boole's system and attempts to solve the problems recognised earlier by Keynes and others.
The economists John Maynard Keynes and John Hicks argued that in general, the natural hedgers of a commodity are those who wish to sell the commodity at a future point in time.
He remained outside Parliament, unsuccessfully contesting Milton Keynes for the SDP in the 1987 general election, until he received a life peerage as Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, of Kentish Town in the London Borough of Camden in 1992.
Financial markets without Say's law keeping them in balance were thus inherently unstable, and through this identification Keynes deduced the consequences to the macro-economy of long run equilibrium being attained not at only one unique position which represented a ' Pareto Optima ' ( a special case ), but through a possible range of many equilibria that could far under employ human and natural resources ( the general case ).
Conceptually, the distinction between Keynes and Marx is that for Keynes the theory is but a special case to his general theory, whereas for Marx it never existed at all.
Hazlitt embarked on this project because, in his view, although general critiques of Keynes and The General Theory had been made, no critic had completed a detailed, paragraph-by-paragraph, analysis of the work and accordingly followers of Keynes could argue that previous critiques were shallow and did not indicate an understanding of Keynes ' revolutionary ideas.
Beginning with the 2010 United Kingdom general election, there would continue to be two parliamentary constituencies for Milton Keynes, but they would be formed on a different basis, abolishing the Milton Keynes North East and Milton Keynes South West constituencies after four general elections of use.
The continuing expansion in the population of Milton Keynes led to this constituency being divided for the 1992 general election into two parts ( Milton Keynes South West and North East Milton Keynes ).
Following their review of parliamentary representation in Buckinghamshire, the Boundary Commission for England created two new seats for Milton Keynes, effectively replacing the current South West / North East division with a North and South division from the 2010 general election.
The continuing expansion in the population of Milton Keynes led to this constituency being divided for the 1992 general election into two parts ( Milton Keynes South West and North East Milton Keynes ).

Keynes and supported
Economist John Maynard Keynes supported more equal outcomes.
Keynes also supported government intervention in the economy as necessity, as did mercantilism.
The project is supported by British Waterways, the Bedford & Milton Keynes Waterway Trust, other waterways campaign groups, and also local councils.
They were introduced to a much wider live audience in October 1982 when they supported Genesis at their reunion concert with original lead singer Peter Gabriel at Milton Keynes Bowl, England.
He has been remembered for having even anticipated and certainly then having supported the theories of John Maynard Keynes relative to " inadequate aggregate spending " in the economy which appeared during his tenure.
* http :// www. mk-g. org / index. php? id = 364 Marcel Broodthaers events at Milton Keynes Gallery ( UK ) February 2008 supported by the Open University http :// www. open. ac. uk
Labor Treasurer Ted Theodore meanwhile supported the view of John Maynard Keynes that an inflationary policy of increased government spending was required.
Their case had been strongly supported by Dora Russell who, with her husband Bertrand Russell and John Maynard Keynes, paid the legal costs of the appeal.

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