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The Economist of Capitalism

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Being born in Cambridge has its reputation of that person becoming someone great later in life. John Maynard Keynes was no different from this argument or prediction. Born under a belt of knowledge whom his father was a professor of moral science at the University of Cambridge and his mother was a local social reformer. John Maynard Keynes upbringing cultivated him into becoming a world class economist whose ideas came from critical thinking and the education that came from where he gained his knowledge.

John Maynard Keynes first started his life June 5, 1883 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom. He was born in a loving home with lots of love and attentiveness. John Keynes was homeschooled and attended the Perse School nursery in 1890 before becoming a day student and pupil at St Faith's preparatory school in 1892. At a young age teachers and others described him as a brilliant student, but at times, he would commit careless acts and lacked determination in certain things. Later on in 1897, he won a scholarship to Eton College where he displayed talent in a wide variety of subjects, especially in mathematics, as well as classics and history.

Despite his middle-class background and upbringing, John Maynard Keynes mixed easily with upper-class pupils. Keynes began to create an endeavor that aggressive marketing was the true way to run an economy; in simple terms meaning supply and demand. Stating that, he was highly praised by other leading economist for his way of thinking and this entitled him and gave him the confidence to lead deeper into economics and start working on the probability theory, which at the time was only funded by two dons at the University of Cambridge--his father and the economist Arthur Piguo. Soon later he published his first professional article in the Economics Journal, which illustrated the effect of a recent global economic downturn or meltdown on India. Soon afterwards he was being given many roles to play in the economics world: lectureship, and even made an editor of the Economic Journal in 1911. After publishing his first book, Indian Currency and Finance, in 1913, he was appointed Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance.

Not only was John Maynard Keynes needed in the educational level but also in times of war. During World War 1 British Government called on his expertise during this time in order to find a great solution so the Bankers won't go into suspension. Keynes

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