What is John Maynard Keynes?
{{Infobox Person | honorific-prefix = <small>[[The Right Honourable]]</small> | name = John Maynard Keynes | image = John Maynard Keynes.jpg | image_size = | caption = John Maynard Keynes at the [[Bretton Woods system|Bretton Woods Conference]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1883|6|5|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Cambridge]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom|UK]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1946|4|21|1883|6|5|df=y}} | death_place = [[Tilton]], [[Sussex]], England, UK | death_cause = [[Heart attack]] | education = [[Eton College]] and [[King's College, Cambridge]] | occupation = [[Economist]] | spouse = [[Lydia Lopokova]] | parents = [[John Neville Keynes]], [[Florence Ada Brown]] }} '''John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes''', [[Order of the Bath|CB]] (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a [[British people|British]] [[economist]]. His ideas, called [[Keynesian economics]], had a big impact on modern economic and political theory. His ideas also had a big impact on many governments' tax and economic policies. He said governments should use tax and banking measures to stop the effects of economic [[recession]]s, [[depression (economics)|depressions]] and [[economic boom|booms]]. He is one of the fathers of modern theoretical [[macroeconomics]]. == Biography == === Personal and marital life === John Maynard Keynes was born at 7 Melville Road, [[Cambridge]], England. His father was [[John Neville Keynes]], an economics lecturer at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]]. His mother was [[Florence Ada Brown]], a successful author and a social reformer. His younger brother, [[Geoffrey Keynes]] (1887–1982) was a surgeon and [[bibliophile]] (book lover). His younger sister Margaret (1890–1974) married the [[Nobel Prize]]-winning physiologist [[Archibald Hill]]. Keynes first went to [[King’s College, Cambridge]], in 1902. At first he studied [[mathematics]]. Later he studied [[economics]] under [[A.C. Pigou]] and [[Alfre