Ten things you didnt know about Mr Keynes

ThisIsLondon.co.uk – Liz Hoggard

Thrilling as it is for old Lefties to find their hero, economist John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), making headlines again as Alistair Darling vows to spend his way out of the recession a key Keynes interventionist approach many of us are scrabbling to sound knowledgeable about the moustachioed old fox. Here we offer you a 10-point bluffer’s guide:

1. He was bisexual

Yes, yes he was one of the fathers of modern theoretical macroeconomics, but Keynes’s sex life was wild…