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John Maynard Keynes was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, have had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on many governments' fiscal policies, including the United States’ response to the 2008 Economic Crisis.
According to Keynesian economics the state should stimulate economic growth and improve stability in the private sector — through, for example, adjusting interest rates and taxation and funding public projects. He advocated interventionist government policy, by which the government would use fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions, depressions and booms. He is one of the fathers of modern theoretical macroeconomics and considered among the most influential economists of the 20th century.
Keynes's early romantic and sexual relationships were almost exclusively with men. Attitudes in the Bloomsbury Group, which included other radical queers such as Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster. One of his great loves was the artist Duncan Grant, whom he met in 1908, and he was also involved with the writer Lytton Strachey.
1921 he fell very much in love with Lydia Lopokova, a well-known Russian ballerina, and one of the stars of Serge Diaghihev's Ballets Russes. They married in 1925, and their union was by all accounts happy, but childless.
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