In early September 1941, John Maynard Keynes, the British economist, retreated to his country house to try to think. The U.K. was at war with Germany, and bombs were falling on London with ...

Could John Maynard Keynes fix Trump’s tariff crisis? This trade war is really a fight for the future of the dollar. By Robert Skidelsky Trump’s tariff bombardment has torn up the rules by which ...

In 1914, John Maynard Keynes wrote an almost triumphalist ode to globalization, just before that vision was dismantled by World War I and the subsequent Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in the US.

In his brilliant essay on gold (Life & Arts, February 15), Phil Tinline reminds us of John Maynard Keynes’ opposition to the reconstruction of the gold standard in the interwar period.

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John Maynard Keynes sought a post-World War II monetary system that constrained the clout of the US. America emerged from the conflict as the planet’s undisputed financial power, with Great ...

Few books in economics deserve much notice a century after their publication. One that does is John Maynard Keynes’s The Economic Consequences of the Peace, published in 1919. The short tract is a ...

Yet the greatest and most revolutionary economist of the 20th century, John Maynard Keynes, applied the same sort of unconventional adventurism to his sex life, and this most intellectual of men ...

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday gave her strongest endorsement yet of the idea of using frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s war effort. But at a press conference from São Paulo ...

In one of those little coincidences of history, Karl Marx died in the same year John Maynard Keynes was born: 1883 — though they missed each other by a couple of months: Marx died in March while ...

John Maynard Keynes, right, and Lady Keynes relax beside a hotel swimming pool in Savannah, Ga., in 1946. (AP) Progress, a wit once said, was fine for a while but it went on too long. America’s ...