John Neville Keynes

John Neville Keynes [ keɪnz ] ( born August 31, 1852 in Salisbury, † November 15, 1949 in Cambridge ) was a British economist and logician, and father of John Maynard Keynes.

Life

The doctor's son John Keynes (1805-1878) and his wife Anna Maynard Neville (1821-1907) visited after the completion of Amersham Hall School University College London, Pembroke College, Cambridge and the local university, where he became fellow in 1875. A year later he was given the same position at the University College in London. From 1883 to 1911 he was in Cambridge as a lecturer in the field of moral science at that time still named human sciences. In 1910 he was elected to the prestigious post of " Registrary " (equivalent to the Chancellor ), which he held until 1925.

Work

Keynes reasoned in his methodological font Scope and Method of Political Economy, the division of the Economics in Economic Theory and Economic Science as a theory of economic policy .. The solution methods of dispute he attempted a synthesis of deduction and induction.

In addition to the major writings Scope and Method of Political Economy and Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic Keynes wrote several articles for the Encyclopædia Britannica and Palgrave 's Dictionary of Political Economy.

Family

Keynes married in 1882, the British author and social reformer Florence Ada Brown. The couple had two sons and one daughter: the eldest son, John Maynard (1883-1946) was an important economist, politician and mathematician. His younger brother Geoffrey Langdon (1887-1982) was a surgeon and has published numerous biographies and bibliographies of English writers such as William Blake. Margaret Neville (1885-1974) married in 1913 the physiologist Archibald Vivian Hill, who in 1922 received the Nobel Prize for Medicine.

Writings

• Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic, 1884
• Scope and Method of Political Economy, 1891