Stimulus economics driven by ideas of gay Briton, John Maynard Keynes
”5. His lifestyle was also ahead of its time. Keynes was openly gay in young adulthood near the turn of the century, enjoying public love affairs with male writers and artists before marrying a Russian ballerina in 1925, when he was 42.”
From Newsweek’s list of things to know about John Maynard Keynes, creator of Keynesian economics which basically dictates that the way to curtain a downturn in a country’s economy is for the government to spend money in the right places, and lots of it. His ideas came to light during the Great Depression of the late 1920s through WWII, and was seen as a contributing philosophy behind FDR’s New Deal. (Newsweek) (Wikipedia)
”He would bring his boyfriends to dinner parties and talk about being married to them…. One day he’s a free-market extremist, the next day he’s a socialist.”
Adam Davidson on the contradictory life of John Maynard Keynes who was gay in his youth but was married later in life to a female ballerina yet had no children. Beyond his radical economic theory, published in ”The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,” he is said to have been a British citizen who was arrogant, anti-Semitic, and disliked Americans and the working class. (Planet Money) (NPR)
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