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Keynesian
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English
+ economics
Etymology
en :af Keynes -ian + 1
Pronunciation
en /ˈkeɪnziən/ GA
Adjective
en economics Of or pertaining to an economic theory based on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes, as put forward in his book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published in 1936 in response to the Great Depression of the 1930s, and extensively extended by a large body of followers before and after his death in 1946.
en capitalist
en May 27, 2020 Bloomberg News https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-27/salaries-get-chopped-for-many-americans-who-manage-to-keep-jobs Salaries Get Chopped for Many Americans Who Manage to Keep Jobs Matthew Boesler; Reade Pickert That’s why supply and demand get out of balance in a slump, according to the so-called New Keynesian model that Fed officials and other policy makers lean on.
en 3 June 2026 John Birmingham Crikey Neoliberalism ate the world. Enter: Pauline Hanson https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/03/neoliberalism-ate-the-world-enter-pauline-hanson/ Long story short, they settled on a plan to challenge the Keynesian orthodoxy of the time: that governments existed to do things for people, that markets left entirely to their own devices tended to eat the poor, and that the occasional judicious application of public money to shared problems was not, in fact, the first step on the road to Stalinist perdition — a philosophy so radical it had just finished winning World War II. https://web.archive.org/web/20261002104433/https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/03/neoliberalism-ate-the-world-enter-pauline-hanson/ 2 October 2026
Derived terms
en Keynesian beauty contest Keynesian cross Keynesianism Keynesianist Keynesian multiplier Keynesian unemployment neo-Keynesian post-Keynesian pre-Keynesian
Translations
pertaining to an economic theory based on the ideas of Keynes
Arabic: ar كِنْزِيّ m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 凱恩斯主義 凱恩斯主義的 Kǎi'ēnsīzhǔyì de
Czech: cs keynesiánský
Danish: da keynesiansk
Dutch: nl keynesiaans
Finnish: fi keynesiläinen
French: fr keynésien
Portuguese: pt keynesiano m
Spanish: es keynesiano
Ukrainian: uk кейнсіанський
Noun
en economics A proponent of Keynesian economic doctrine.
en capitalist
en 1965-12-31 w:Milton Friedman We Are All Keynesians Now https://web.archive.org/web/20070211210619/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842353,00.html 2007-02-11 Time We Are All Keynesians Now [title]
en 1980-03-03 w:Antony Jay; w:Jonathan Lynn w:The Whisky Priest w:Yes, Minister 3 20 w:Humphrey Appleby w:Nigel Hawthorne If I'd believed in all their policies, [...] I would've been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a grammar school preserver and destroyer, a nationalisation freak and a privatisation maniac; but above all, I would have been a stark-staring raving schizophrenic! (laugh track).
en 1981 Thomas Katsaros; John Teluk University Press of America 22 https://books.google.com/books?id=wFzuAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Keynesians%22&dq=%22Keynesians%22&hl=&cd=111&source=gbs_api Capitalism: A Cooperative Venture Since the 1960's the Keynesians have also come under heavy criticism by a group of economists known as Neo-Keynesians. The main contention of the Neo-Keynesians is that the Keynesians have no adequate theory on inflation.
Translations
proponent of Keynesian doctrine
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 凱恩斯主義者 Kǎi'ēnsīzhǔyìzhě
Finnish: fi keynesiläinen
Portuguese: pt keynesiano m
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