The publication of the final volume of Robert Skidelsky's impressive trilogy—John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937-1946—is an appropriate occasion to evaluate Keynes's life and his legacy as ...

John Maynard Keynes is one of the few economists who can justifiably be called a household name. His ideas remained hugely influential for many years after his death in 1946. But fewer people will ...

British economist John Maynard Keynes spearheaded a revolution in economic thinking that overturned the then-prevailing idea that free markets would automatically provide full employment—that is, that ...