(Keynes was a gay man who was married, happily, and for years, to a Russian ballerina, who miscarried.) Ferguson himself has four children, the youngest of whom is a boy not quite 2 years old.

The name of vaunted British economist John Maynard Keynes has been invoked so much in recent months—as hero and whipping boy—you'd think he was a member of President Obama's economic team.

Left: English economist John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946) at his desk. Original Publication: Picture Post - 361 - Mr Keynes Has A Plan - pub. 1940. Photo by Tim Gidal/Picture Post/Getty Images ...

Google “Keynesian” and more than 4.2 million results pop up. It’s not quite the 220 million for “Kardashian” but not bad for the theories of a dead economist. John Maynard Keynes (1883 ...

John Maynard Keynes Was the Warren Buffett of His Day. By Matthew O'Brien. April 3, 2012. Share. Save. His investing acumen explains why Keynes was skeptical of markets and favored public spending.

British economist John Maynard Keynes, left, attends an international monetary conference in Savannah, Ga., in 1946. Keynes’s attempts to shape policy in his own time often left him frustrated.

For British economist Sir John Maynard Keynes, consumption — economic or otherwise — was what made the world go 'round. His ideas about how to nurture national economies, and when to intervene ...

British economist John Maynard Keynes believed government spending could pull an economy out of recession. After deficits ballooned in the 1970s, his ideas were widely discredited. Now, with the ...

Robert Skidelsky is John Maynard Keynes's biographer and a member of the British House of Lords. The last four years have created what economists call a "natural experiment" in economic policy.

LONDON The British economist John Maynard Keynes may live on in popular legend as the world’s most influential economist. But in much of Europe, and most acutely here in the land of his birth ...