John Maynard Keynes was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, to an upper-middle-class family. His father, John Neville Keynes, was an economist and a lecturer in moral sciences at the University of Cambridge and his

Keynesian ascendancy 1939–79
From the end of the Great Depression to the mid-1970s, Keynes provided the main inspiration for economic

Relationships
Keynes's early romantic and sexual relationships were exclusively with women. Keynes had been in relationships while at Eton and Cambridge; significant among these early partners were Dilly Knox and Daniel Macmillan.

Books
• 1913 Indian Currency and Finance
• 1919 The Economic Consequences of the Peace

In October 1906 Keynes's Civil Service career began as a clerk in the India Office. He enjoyed his work at first, but by 1908 had become bored and resigned his position to return to Cambridge and work on probability theory, through a lectureship in economics at first

John Maynard Keynes had a drastically different upbringing and motives for his philosophical and economic contributions. Rather than writing with the mindset of being upset at the current system, Keynes instead produced his most famous work, The General Theory of

In John Buchan's novel Island of Sheep (1936) the character of the financier Barralty is based on Keynes.
In the film Wittgenstein (1993), directed by Derek Jarman, Keynes was played by John Quentin.
The docudrama Paris