John Neville Keynes ( born John Neville Keynes ; August 31, 1852 , Salisbury , England - November 15, 1949 , Cambridge , England ) is a British economist , father of John Maynard Keynes .
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| Place of Birth | Salisbury |
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| Scientific field | economy |
| Place of work | Cambridge university |
| Alma mater | University College London Cambridge university |
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Biography
He was the son of Dr. John Keynes and his wife, Anna Maynard Neville. He was educated at Amersham High School, University College London and Pembroke College, Cambridge University , where he began teaching since 1876 . He gave lectures on ethics in 1883-1911. He was elected Secretary of the University of Cambridge in 1910 and was until 1925 .
He divided economic science into “ positive economics ” (a study of what the economy is and how it works), “ normative economics ” (a study of what should be), and “the art of economics” ( applied economics ).
He tried to synthesize deductive and inductive reasoning as a solution to the Methodenstreit problem. His main works: Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic (1884) and The Subject and Method of Political Economy (1891).
He survived his eldest son and died on November 15, 1949 in Cambridge at the age of 97.
Family
He married Florence Ada Brown (who later became mayor of Cambridge ). They had three children: economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), surgeon and poetry researcher William Blake Jeffrey Keynes (1887-1982) and Margaret Neville Keynes (1890-1974), who married Archibald Hill in 1913 .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
Literature
- Blaug M. Keynes, John Neville // 100 great economists before Keynes = Great Economists before Keynes: An introduction to the lives & works of one hundred great economists of the past. - SPb. : Economics, 2008 .-- S. 125-127. - 352 p. - (Library of the Economic School, vol. 42). - 1,500 copies. - ISBN 978-5-903816-01-9 .
- Phyllis Deane (1987). Keynes, John Neville, The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 3, p. 92.