> [!note] New — 2026-03-18 ![[assets/covers/john-maynard-keynes.jpg]] John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was a British economist whose work transformed twentieth-century economic policy. He is cited in discussions of the [[Power of Ideas]] for his observation, in the closing pages of *The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money* (1936), that practical men who believe themselves free of intellectual influence are invariably the slaves of some defunct economist; and that the world is ruled by ideas, for good and ill, far more than by vested interests. ## Appearances - *The Divine Conspiracy*, [[Dallas Willard]] (1997), Ch. 1 ‘Entering the Eternal Kind of Life Now’, pp. 5–6 ## Related [[Power of Ideas]] · [[Moral Knowledge]]