Keynes Biography Presentation

Meinard Keynes grew up in a university teaching environment, on his five -year -old great -grandmother Jane Elizabeth Ford wrote to him: “It is expected that you will grow up very smart, because you live in Cambridge all the time.” In October, Keynes met the Russian ballerina of the Diaghilev Entreprise by Lydia Lopukhov at the first post -war seasons in London, in the year Keynes fell in love with Lydia when she danced in the Diaghilev’s "sleeping beauty" of Tchaikovsky in the London theater of Alghagra.

In the same year, J. Keynes made his first trip to the USSR to celebrate the flight of the Academy of Sciences, and also became a ballet patron and even composed ballet libretto. In addition, J. Keynes was in the USSR back and years with private visits. Keynes's marriage, apparently, was happy, although due to problems of the medical nature, the spouses could not have children in the year Lydia had a miscarriage.

Lydia survived Keynes and died in the year. Keynes was very high, approximately, see Keynes and managed to make a good fortune. After the colon market of the year, Keynes was on the verge of bankruptcy, but soon managed to restore his wealth. He was fond of collecting books and managed to acquire many original works by Isaac Newton Keynes called him the last alchemist English. In the preface to the “Lectures in Physics”, Hideki Yukawa, Keynes’s biographical book about Newton, is also mentioned, but this refers to the print publication of this lecture or more extensive work, it is unclear from the context.

By the time Keynes’s death, his investment portfolio was estimated at thousands of pounds in the year, today it was 11.2 million, and the cost of a collection of books and arts of art amounted to 80 thousand pounds of sterling 2.2 million.

He was interested in literature and drama, provided financial assistance to the Cambridge Art Theater, which allowed this theater to become, although only for some time, the most significant British theater located outside London. Keynes studied in the end, at the Royal College at Cambridge, and at the university he studied with Alfred Marshall, who was highly opinion on the student’s abilities.

Ethics professor Henry Sidzhvik taught Keynes the humanities. In addition to the economy, Keynes won the chair of the President of the Cambridge Union as a student in Keynes, is a central figure among economists of the 20th century, since it was he who created the foundations of modern macroeconomic theory.