John Maynard Keynes Biography and Timeline

India Office

Appointed to serve in the India Office

Adviser

Appointed Adviser to the Treasury

Role range: 1915-1916 – 1915-1919

Conference of Paris

Attends the Paris Peace Conference

Role range: 1916-1922

Britains Industrial Future

Publication of "Britains Industrial Future". Advocates a middle way in industrial relations, the "Liberal Yellow Book"

Liberal Yellow Book

Publication of "Britains Industrial Future". Advocates a middle way in industrial relations, the "Liberal Yellow Book"

State Intervention

Questions the free economy & supports Lloyd George for Government sponsored works. Proposes full employment, lower interest rates & higher investment

General theory of Employment

Publication of "General theory of Employment"

Bretton Woods Negotiations

Keynes negotiates Britain's position at Bretton Woods and accepts the postwar framework linking fixed exchange rates indirectly to gold through the United States dollar.