He was a social thinker who was concerned with the great problems of his day: war and economic depression. Keynes was deeply afraid of social upheaval and revolution, but his social values were essentially radical. pic.twitter.com/rTwreWYLJQ — Dr Liv Gibbs (@DrLivGibbs) June 5, 2020For all the impact he’s had on economic policy thinking, he faced repeated political disappointments through much of his career. Keynes wanted everyone to live in the Bloomsbury of 1913, having their hair cut by Virginia Woolf while drinking champagne and debating post-impressionism with Lytton Strachey. ADADIt depends on which Keynes you’re talking to, but by the end of his life, I think that’s about right.

Source: Washington Post June 08, 2020 04:01 UTC