This is one of the better articles about Keynes. Many of the negative comments above address leftist distortions about what Keynes actually said. Keynes was no Keynesian (as that term is fondly used by today’s tax-and-spend big-government advocates).
“Many of the negative comments above address leftist distortions about what Keynes actually said. Keynes was no Keynesian (as that term is fondly used by today’s tax-and-spend big-government advocates).”
Keynes made his feelings known through an anecdote about the time that he attended a meeting of ‘Keynesians’. When he returned home at the end of the evening he told his wife Lydia “I was the only non-Keynesian there”.
He gets blamed for a lot of policies that he didn’t advocate. They were actually the policies of socialists who called themselves Kenynesians.