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John Meynard Keynes British Economist Pioneer of the theory of full employment, and with many other interests from book collecting to probability theory. His influence on economics was such that the thirty-year boom in Western industrial countries (1945-75) has been called the Age of Keynes. After graduating, Keynes entered the civil service and simultaneously managed to work on a dissertation - often during office hours - which earned him a fellowship at King's College. He also emerged as a member of the Bloomsbury group of intellectuals and artists. In the early years of Bloomsbury, Keynes was also exclusively gay. But in 1923 he shocked the group by marrying Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova. The happy marriage seems to have made an ex-gay out of Keynes - according to one , he never again pursued men sexually. Following the outbreak of World War One, Keynes joined the Treasury, and in the wake of the Versailles peace treaty, he published The Economic Consequences of Peace, in which he criticised the exorbitant demands for war reparations from defeated Germany and prophetically predicted a German revenge. The best-selling book made him world famous
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