The Cardinal Rules of Democracy & Employment for a Digital Age John Maynard Keynes is considered by many, as one of the greatest thinkers of the 20 th century. A descendant of Norman conquering feudalists, at Eton he traced his ancestors thus far. Born in 1883, at a time when the sun never set on the British Empire and Britain was in an empirical age of Splendid Isolation, he studied mathematics at Cambridge, where he was advised to study economics. He became iconic in an age of Georgian reinvention. Females were allowed to study at Cambridge, the Suffragette movement was in militant full swing and the Bloomsbury sect was the cultural hub of the classical thinkers and politicians of the time. Virginia Wolfe and Lady Ottoline Morrell were just two of those who challenged the established views on anything from female suffrage and the British Empire. Keynes became a member of this iconoclastic movement in 1902. ...
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