JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES (1883-1946) was a British economist best known for his theories of Keynesian economics on protracted unemployment. He also wrote General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936), The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), and The End of Laissez-Faire (1926).

The most provocative book written by any economist of Keynes's generation, propounding a fundamentally new approach that revolutionised economics.