Learn how the Keynesian multiplier affects economic growth, emphasizing government spending's influence on employment and GDP within macroeconomic theory.

Strong reactions to rising prices and misunderstandings about the value of money are rampant, our columnist says. By Jeff Sommer An exhibition about the bohemian set’s “philosophy of fashion” goes ...

During World War II, famous economist John Maynard Keynes wrote about a way to help tame inflation: compulsory savings. Could that work now? One economist thinks we should revisit the idea. The ...

In early September 1941, John Maynard Keynes, the British economist, retreated to his country house to try to think. The U.K. was at war with Germany, and bombs were falling on London with devastating ...

Keynes’ work on the problem of leisure has not been treated with the same reverence as his work on solving the problem of the ...

One of the joys of Capitalism and Its Critics, John Cassidy’s unexpectedly lively romp through the two-and-a-half-century history of capitalism, is its fine sense for dramatic reversals. Nearly a ...

Sometimes good policy and good politics are the same thing. By tying together lessons learned from economist John Maynard Keynes and former president Harry Truman, Barack Obama is taking steps that ...

We are in the middle of the capitalistic order reinventing itself. By Sven Beckert Strong reactions to rising prices and misunderstandings about the value of money are rampant, our columnist says. By ...