John Neville Keynes

British economist (1852–1949)

John Neville Keynes

Born| (1852-08-31)31 August 1852

Salisbury, England

Died| 15 November 1949(1949-11-15) (aged 97)

Cambridge, England

Occupation(s)| Academic, philosopher, economist
Spouse| Florence Ada Brown
Children| 3, including John and Geoffrey
Academic background
Education| Amersham Hall
Alma mater|

* University College London
* Pembroke College, Cambridge

Academic work
Main interests| Applied economics, macroeconomics
Notable ideas| Methodenstreit, formal logic

John Neville Keynes (/ˈkeɪnz/ KAYNZ; 31 August 1852 – 15 November 1949) was a British economist and father of John Maynard Keynes.

## Biography

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Born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Keynes was the child of John Keynes (1805–1878) and his wife Anna Maynard Neville (1821–1907). He was educated at Amersham Hall School, University College London and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1876.[1] He held a lectureship in Moral Sciences from 1883 to 1911. He was elected as Registrary in 1910, and held that office until 1925.

He divided economics into "positive economy" (the study of what is, and the way the economy works), "normative economy" (the study of what should be), and the "art of economics" (applied economics). The art of economics relates the lessons learned in positive economics to the normative goals determined in normative economics. He tried to synthesise deductive and inductive reasoning as a solution to the "Methodenstreit". His main works were:

* Studies and Exercises in Formal Logic (1884)
* The Scope and Method of Political Economy[2] Archived 25 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine (1891)

In 1882 he married Florence Ada Brown,[3] who was later a Mayor of Cambridge. They had two sons and a daughter:

* John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), the economist
* Margaret Neville Keynes (1885–1970), who married Archibald Hill (winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology) in 1913
* Geoffrey Langdon Keynes (1887–1982), a surgeon

He represented Cambridge University six times in the annual chess match against Oxford University and is the joint holder of the record for most appearances on either side.[4]

He outlived his elder son by three years; he died in Cambridge, aged 97.

## See also

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* Keynes family

## References

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1. ^ "Keynes, John Neville (KNS872JN)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
2. ^ Dewey, Davis R. (1891). Keynes, John Neville (ed.). "Keynes on Statistics". Publications of the American Statistical Association. 2 (14): 308–310. doi:10.2307/2276579. ISSN 1522-5437. JSTOR 2276579.
3. ^ "Keynes, John Neville". Who's Who. 59: 980–981. 1907.
4. ^ "John Saunders's Chess Pages: Varsity Chess Matches, 1873 to present: Oxford vs Cambridge Universities".

## Sources

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* Phyllis Deane (1987). "Keynes, John Neville," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 3, p. 92.

## External links

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* Works by or about John Neville Keynes at Wikisource

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John Maynard Keynes

Books|

* The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
* A Treatise on Probability (1921)
* A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)
* A Treatise on Money (1930)
* The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)
* How to Pay for the War (1940)

Family|

* John Neville Keynes (father)
* Florence Ada Keynes (mother)
* Geoffrey Keynes (brother)
* Lydia Lopokova (wife)
* Richard Keynes (nephew)
* Quentin Keynes (nephew)
* Milo Keynes (nephew)
* Stephen Keynes (nephew)
* Keynes family

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* Bloomsbury Group

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Registraries of the University of Cambridge

* 1506 Robert Hobys
* 1543 John Mere
* 1558 Matthew Stokys
* 1591 Thomas Smith
* 1600 James Tabor
* 1645 Matthew Whinn
* 1683 James Halman
* 1701 Robert Grove
* 1725 Lancelot Newton
* 1734 John Taylor
* 1751 Lynford Caryl
* 1758 Henry Hubbard
* 1778 George Borlase
* 1809 William Augustus Pemberton
* 1816 William Hustler
* 1832 Joseph Romilly
* 1862 Henry Richards Luard
* 1891 John Willis Clark
* 1910 John Neville Keynes
* 1925 Ernest Harrison
* 1943 Walter Wyatt Grave
* 1953 Robert Mantle Rattenbury
* 1969 Roderick Ewen Macpherson
* 1983 Stephen George Fleet
* 1997 Timothy John Mead
* 2007 Jonathan Nicholls
* 2017 Emma Rampton

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