Profiles

To no one's surprise, governments that interfere with their economies at every turn are at war with each other. Perhaps there is another path to peace.

John Maynard Keynes's supporters still insist that he was a mild and benign liberal. In truth, Keynes supported the blood-soaked Soviet regime and called himself a socialist. 

Between 1909 and 1913, Keynes was the most important defender of British monetary imperialism in India. His faithful defense of the British Empire in those early years allowed him to become the century’s most influential economist after the war.

John Maynard Keynes's stance on German reparations in the wake of the First World War may have precipitated the rise of Hitler.