Keynes was an applied economist who turned to inventing theory because the theory he had inherited could not properly explain what was happening. (Robert Skidelsky)

Keynes was an applied economist who turned to inventing theory because the theory he had inherited could not properly explain what was happening.

Robert Skidelsky

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