Collier's New Encyclopedia

A complete general encyclopedia of 1921 — the world as it was understood just after the Great War, from Aachen to Zwingli, across twelve volumes and six thousand pages.

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Keynes

JOHN MAYNARD, British economist. He was born at Cambridge in 1883, and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. He became twelfth wrangler in 1905, and president of the Cambridge Union Society in the same year. In 1906 he passed second in open competition for Civil Service (Class I.) and was at the India Office in 1906- 1908. In 1907 he became Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He also became connected with the "Economic Journal" and has been its editor since 1912. In 1915 he became attached to the Treasury and became acting principal clerk in 1917. He has been Girdlers' lecturer in economics in the University of Cambridge since 1910, secretary of the Royal KEY WEST Economic Society since 1913, and was member of the Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency 1913-1914, He was one of the British financial representatives at Paris in 1918-1919, and his book, "The Economic Consequences of Peace," attained a great vogue. In 1913 he published "Indian Currency and Finance."

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