Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.

John Maynard Keynes

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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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