John maynard keynes was born on 5 june 1883 in cambridge, cambridge shire, england died on 21 april 1946 in firle, sussex, england. Keynes was the son of an economics professor, John Neville Keynes, a loving father devoted to Keynes, author of The Purpose and Method of Political Economy, and his mother Florence Ada Keynes, social reformer and mayor of Cambridge, was a great advocate of pensions for the elderly who lived in poor service to deserve the poor and reintegrate prisoners into society, she was also a loving and devoted mother to Keynes. Kenyes also had a brother named Geoffrey Keynes who was knighted for work on blood transfusion and married a niece of Charles Darwin and sister Margaret Keynes who married physiologist prize-winning nobleman Archibald Hill. Keynes was destined by family ties to be influential in the narrow British university world, Keynes began his studies at Eton and King's College, Cambridge where in 1904 he obtained a degree in Mathematics and ended up studying at Cambridge. during Cambridge he was president of the Cambridge Liberal Club, promoted the redistribution of wealth and favored government involvement in the economy and was also part of the Cambridge Apostle Debating Society, a discussion forum for members which included many mathematicians and prominent philosophers. Kenyes was a member of the Bloomsbury group, a group of bohemian thinkers and doers who rebelled against the customs and morals of the Victorian era. for Keynes this was important as he was homosexual at the time and it was common for members of the Bloomsbury Group to have homosexual relationships within group members. Keynes' dealings consisted of Dilly Knox, a code breaker, and Daniel Macmillan who helped him publish Economic Consequ... mid-article... higher taxation in times of economic growth. the book also countered classical economic theory. Keynes argues that classical economics is applicable only to special cases that are not those of the economic society in which we actually live. Milton Friedman and other economists who were pessimistic about the ability of governments to regulate the business cycle with fiscal policy. that consumption spending responds to changes in permanent income and not to temporary changes in income. And that monetary factors have greater importance than Keyne allowed. To support his theory, Friedman published studies on the quantity theory of money. Keynes was also Britain's representative at the 1944 Brenton Wood Convention which established the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Kenyes died on April 21, 1946 due to health problems.