John Maynard Keynes

Keynes''s personality was fixed by the clash between Moorean values - other-worldliness, idealism, pacifism - and Keynes''s own nature which craved and attained worldly success, wealth and social influence and approbation. The result was an ''existential'' outlook that caused him to become particularly sensitive to the human condition, to human suffering and to real concern. Accordingly, Keynes ca...