Discover how Keynesian economics can stabilize economies by mitigating boom-bust cycles, as pioneered by John Maynard Keynes ...

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was the greatest economist of the twentieth century. Less well known is that he had a parallel career as a successful investor: fairly successful early in his career, ...

In this week's print edition, we take a look at modern-day followers in John Maynard Keynes's footsteps, who are rethinking how economics is taught at British universities. Here we reproduce The ...

Yesterday, GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a fool of himself by affectionately quoting Republican bete-noire John Maynard Keynes—and then attributing the quote to Republican hero Winston ...

IN THE years since the publication in 1936 of "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", John Maynard Keynes’s name has been irretrievably linked to the idea that fiscal stimulus should ...

John Maynard Keynes was right about the future. But he was wrong about how we’d be spending it. “In the long run,” Keynes famously wrote, ”we are all dead.” I rate that claim true. But it actually has ...

To far too many economists, commentators and politicians today, trade is sadly viewed as war. In the presidential elections of 2012 Mitt Romney talked about “getting tough” on China, while President ...

John Maynard Keynes revolutionized economic theory to show that government intervention can stabilize economies. Photo courtesy of Tim Gidal/Picture Post/Getty Images. Paul Solman: It is the ...