John Maynard Keynes
 John Maynard Keynes     ( economist, central banker) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | 1883-06-05 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England | |||||||||||
| Died | 1946-04-21 (Age 62) Tilton, near, Firle, Sussex, England | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | • Eton College • King's College (Cambridge) | |||||||||||
| Spouse | Lydia Lopokova | |||||||||||
| Member of | Galton Institute, The Other Club | |||||||||||
Very influential economist and Neo-Malthusian eugenicist, Director of the Bank of England in the 1940s
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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes was an English economist and central banker.
Eugenics
Keynes feared a scenario where lower-class births would outpace the genetically fit, reducing the average "quality" of the society and thus the "average level of prosperity." He closed one lecture by saying that the old Malthusian check on overpopulation may still return after a "moment of turning." After World War 1, Keynes's interests in population quickly developed an overt political character, as he publicly joined the British campaign to liberalize birth control statutes. Keynes's reputation brought him into the company of leading family planning campaigners, including the United States' Margaret Sanger and Britain's Marie Stopes.[1]
At the Fifth Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference in London in July 1922, he copresided over the conference by chairing its economic and statistical section. Speaking to the press at the time, Keynes proclaimed that "the late war … has placed birth control before all nations as the most important economic question."[1][2]
