He was troubled, above all, by high unemployment rates and large disparities in wealth and income. Keynes's limpid style, concise prose, and vivid descriptions have helped to keep his ideas alive - as have the novelty and clarity, at times even the ambiguity, of his macroeconomic vision. But its ideas had been forming for decades - as a student at Cambridge, Keynes had written to a friend of his love for 'Free Trade and free thought'. 'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money' was first published in 1936. On economic theory, he ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx and his impact on how economics was practiced, from the Great Depression to the 1970s, was unmatched. John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) is perhaps the foremost economic thinker of the twentieth century. But its ideas had been forming for decades - as a student at Cambridge, Keynes had written to a friend of his love for 'Free Trade an.
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