"No one embodied the Cambridge spirit of culture, fun, and public duty so much as Maynard Keynes. No one was more brilliant or charming. No economist in this century influenced politicians or the course of economics more."
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Todd G. Buchholz, "Keynes: Bon Vivant as Savior" in New Ideas from Dead Economists
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John Maynard Keynes
1883 – 1946
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