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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Gapper: John Maynard Keynes
'Gapper' is our term for famous people whom we probably should have profiled long ago.Here's a great one: John Maynard Keynes. Editor Paul Hehn, at the English economics desk, has just whipped up a nifty profile of Keynes, whose "notion that governments should intervene in times of market distress" seems awfully timely these days.
Keynes was a brainiac who also hung with Virginia Woolf as a young man. (Alan Greenspan was chums with Ayn Rand. What is it with economists and writers?)
Take a peek, won't you?
Posted by Mr. Holznagel at 6:06 AM 
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At least in the cases of Keynes/Woolf and Greenspan/Rand, the friendships seemed to be based on a mutual disregard for social conventions, especially when it came to sexual relationships.
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