John Neville Keynes

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John Neville Keynes [ keɪnz ] (born August 31, 1852 in Salisbury , † November 15, 1949 in Cambridge ) was a British economist and logician and father of John Maynard Keynes .

Life

The son of doctor John Keynes (1805-1878) and his wife Anna Maynard Neville (1821-1907) attended University College London , Pembroke College in Cambridge and the university there , where he became a fellow in 1875 after graduating from Amersham Hall School was appointed. A year later he was given the same position at University College London. From 1883 to 1911 he was in Cambridge as a lecturer in the field of human sciences, which were then still called moral science . In 1910 he was elected to the prestigious office of “Registrary” (equivalent to the Chancellor ), which he held until 1925.

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Keynes founded in his methodological writing Scope and Method of Political Economy the division of the economics into economics and economics as the theory of the economic policy . As a solution to the methodological dispute, he sought a synthesis of deduction and induction .

In addition to the main publications Scope and Method of Political Economy and Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic , Keynes wrote various articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica and Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy .

family

Keynes married the British author and social reformer Florence Ada Brown in 1882 . The couple had two sons and a daughter: the eldest son, John Maynard (1883–1946), became an important economist, politician and mathematician. His younger brother Geoffrey Langdon (1887-1982) became a surgeon and published numerous biographies and bibliographies of English authors such as William Blake . Margaret Neville (1885–1974) married the physiologist Archibald Vivian Hill in 1913 , who received the 1922 Nobel Prize in Medicine .

Fonts

  • Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic , 1884
  • Scope and Method of Political Economy , 1891

literature

  • Phyllis Deane: "Keynes, John Neville", in: The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics , 1987, Vol. 3, p. 92
  • "Who Was Who 1941-1950. A Companion to Who's Who Containing the Biographies of Those Who Died During the Decade 1941-1950", London: Adam & Charles Black 1964, p. 637

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard Neck, Political Economy, Economic Policy and Business Ethics. What remains of John Neville Keynes' research program? , in: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaft und Unternehmensethik (zfwu) 7/2 (2006), 223-239 223
  2. ↑ Das Who Was Who 1941-1950 , p. 637, names only one son and one daughter in its obituary.

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personal data
SURNAME Keynes, John Neville
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1852
PLACE OF BIRTH Salisbury
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1949
Place of death Cambridge