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{{Infobox person|name=John Maynard Keynes|image=John Maynard Keynes.png|image_size=200|birth_place=Cambridge, [[England]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]|death_date=21 April 1946|death_place=Tilton, England, [[United Kingdom]]|field=Economics|birth_date=5 June 1883}} | {{Infobox person|name=John Maynard Keynes|image=John Maynard Keynes.png|image_size=200|birth_place=Cambridge, [[England]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|United Kingdom]]|death_date=21 April 1946|death_place=Tilton, England, [[United Kingdom]]|field=Economics|birth_date=5 June 1883}} | ||
'''John Maynard Keynes''' (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British | '''John Maynard Keynes''' (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British bourgeois [[economist]] and founder of Keynesianism. His 1936 book ''A General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money'' attempted to explain the causes of [[Economic crisis|economic crises]]. He blamed insufficient consumer [[demand]] for the crises and advocated for the [[state]] to increase investment and [[profit]] by lowering [[Wage|wages]]. His proposed policies of [[inflation]] and war spending would worsen the living conditions of the [[proletariat]].<ref name=":0">{{Citation|year=1954|title=Political Economy|chapter=Economic Doctrines of the Capitalist Epoch|chapter-url=https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe/pe-ch22.htm|section=The Further Degeneration of Bourgeois Economic Science. Present-day Bourgeois Political Economy|mia=https://www.marxists.org/subject/economy/authors/pe/index.htm}}</ref> | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
[[Category:Economists]] | [[Category:Economists]] |