The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

Economists
John Maynard Keynes
Born in Cambridge in 1883, Keynes was the most influential economist of the twentieth century. The General Theory (1936) showed deficient demand causes unemployment, justifying fiscal policy and founding macroeconomics.
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