John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes (1883-1946), Economist

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Keynes was the editor of the Economic Journal from 1912 to 1945. He wrote The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) and his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) led to the establishment of 'Keynesian economics'. After the Second World War he played a leading part in founding the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He was the first Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain. Keynes's enquiring mind, which so impressed his friend Lytton Strachey, his affair with Duncan Grant and his lasting respect for Vanessa Bell, made him a key figure in Bloomsbury. He became Baron Keynes in 1942.