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John Maynard Keynes
Economist, investor, Treasury official and Bloomsbury aesthete. He warned the Versailles peace would fail, explained why depressions can persist, invented modern macroeconomics, co-designed Bretton Woods, and made a fortune investing.
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Prereqs: Supply & demand; GDP & growth (Polymath Core). Next: Hayek. Sources: Skidelsky's three-volume biography, *The General Theory* (1936) and Chambers & Dimson on Keynes the investor.Next: 1. Life