John Maynard Keynes, (1883-1946) was a British economist whose ideas have fundamentally affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics and informed the economic policies of governments. He built on and greatly refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles, and he is widely considered to be one of the founders of modern macroeconomics and the most influential economist of the 20th century. His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics and its various offshoots. In this book: The Economic Consequences of the Peace A Revision of the Treaty, Being a Sequel of The Economic Consequence of the Peace The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money