government service and academia, and when he was called up to the Treasury on the eve of World War I, he relished an opportunity …-be authoritarians. The experience began a career that spanned two world wars and a global depression and which often found him in a … it to America and FDR's New Deal in the Great Depression, and through his books, especially The General Theory, he became …

agents favored by economists at the end of the century. Keynes wanted to create a revolution in the way the world thought …