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About John Maynard Keynes
In the winter of 1930, as unemployment in Britain soared past 2.5 million and orthodox economists urged austerity, I published 'A Treatise on Money', a flawed but urgent attempt to diagnose why markets refused to clear. Two years later, watching governments double down on gold-standard orthodoxy while breadlines lengthened, I scrapped that framework entirely and drafted the 'General Theory' in furious, sleepless bursts, arguing not that markets were irrational, but that they could settle into chronically idle equilibria without deliberate demand management. My Treasury role during WWII wasn’t theoretical: I designed the Bretton Woods architecture, negotiated Lend-Lease terms with Washington, and personally calculated how much steel, coal, and manpower Britain could divert to tanks without collapsing civilian supply. I never believed in permanent full employment as a mechanical outcome, I believed in the state’s moral duty to prevent waste of human capacity when private confidence failed.
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