{"id":69,"date":"2011-07-30T12:32:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T20:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/?p=69"},"modified":"2011-08-06T09:07:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T17:07:16","slug":"john-maynard-keynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/2011\/07\/30\/john-maynard-keynes\/","title":{"rendered":"John Maynard Keynes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Maynard Keynes was a Cambridge economist whose writings provided a scientific analysis of economic cycles and showed how these economic cycles could be manipulated. The unemployed were not moral failures; rather, unemployment resulted from impersonal forces at work in the economy, forces that could be countered by state action.<\/p>\n<p>Keynes argued for more government, rather than less. To inflate a depressed economy, Keynes argued that government needed to increase public investment.<\/p>\n<p>Keynes&#8217; ideas, although not embraced during the 193os, became widely accepted after the Second World War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Maynard Keynes was a Cambridge economist whose writings provided a scientific analysis of economic cycles and showed how these economic cycles could be manipulated. The unemployed were not moral failures; rather, unemployment resulted from impersonal forces at work in the economy, forces that could be countered by state action. Keynes argued for more government, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[310001],"tags":[310034,310032,310012],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-war-canada","tag-economic-cycles","tag-economist","tag-government-expansion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mannis2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}