Keynes, John Maynard Baron Keynes, 1883-1946
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1883 · died 1946
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, was an English economist whose writings are considered the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics, as well as its various offshoots. Originally trained in mathematics, he built on and refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles. His ideas, further developed after his death as New Keynesianism, are seen as foundational to mainstream macroeconomics. He has been referred to as the "father of macroeconomics" and is considered one of the most influential economists of the 20th century.
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Professional papers in subject groupings with relevant correspondence with relevant correspondence; personal papers, including some papers of Lydia Lopokova.
Keynes Papers, King’s College Archive Centre, Cambridge.
Professional papers, National Archives, Kew, T 247/1-130, Keynes Papers 1940-6.
1898: Editions of ‘The Gem’, Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives.
Correspondents
VANESSA BELL, Correspondence 1907-36, Morgan Library, New York; Correspondence 1916-45 (copies), University of Sussex Library
WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE, BARON BEVERIDGE, Correspondence 1923-46, Beveridge Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
RUPERT BROOKE, Correspondence 1908-13, Brooke Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
EDWIN CANNAN, Correspondence 1913-34, Cannan Papers, BLPES
PAUL EINZIG, Correspondence 1930-42, Einzig Papers, Churchill Archive Centre, Churchill College Cambridge
OSWALD TOYNBE FALK, Correspondence 1919-42, Falk Papers, British Library
AETHUR ELLIOTT FELKIN, Correspondence 1914-38, Felkin Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
DUNCAN GRANT, Correspondence 1908-42, British Library.
SIR RALPH GEORGE HAWTREY, Correspondence 1922-44, Hawtrey Papers, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College Cambridge
RICHARD FERDINAND KAHN, BARON KAHN, Correspondence 1928-45, Kahn Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
NICHOLAS KALDOR, BARON KALDOR, Correspondence 1931-45, Kaldor Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
MACMILLAN & CO LTD, Correspondence 1910-46, Macmillan Archives. British Library
BASIIL KINGSLEY MARTIN, Correspondence, 1923-46, Martin Papers, Special Collections, University of Sussex Library
JAMES EDWARD MEADE, Correspondence 1930s, Meade Papers, BLPES
GEORGE EDWARD MOORE, Correspondence 1904-35, Moore Papers, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Cambridge University Library
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1930-40, Robbins Papers, BLPES
SIR DENNIS HOLME ROBERTSON, Correspondence 1913-46 (mostly copies), Robertson Papers, Trinity College, Cambridge.
JOAN VIOLET ROBINSON, Correspondence 1932-44, Joan Robinson Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
JOHN SALTMARSH, Correspondence 1930-42, Saltmarsh Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
SIR JOHN TRESSIDER SHEPPARD, Correspondence 1903-46, Sheppard Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
WALTER JOHN HERBERT (‘SEBASTIAN’) SPROTT, Correspondence 1920-38, Sprott Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
JOHN RICHARD NICHOLAS STONE, Correspondence and papers 1940-1, Stone Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
PIERO SRAFFA, Correspondence 1921-46, Sraffa Papers, Trinity College, Cambridge
LYTTON GILES STRACHEY, Correspondence 1903-30, Strachey Papers, British Library; Berg Collection, New York Public Library
SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF SCIENCE AND LEARNING, Correspondence 1933-52, Society for Protection of Science and Learning Papers, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford
Printed material
R.F. Harrod, The Life of John Maynard Keynes (London, 1951)
R. Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes, 3 vols (London, 1983-2000)
D.E. Moggridge, Maynard Keynes: An Economist’s Biography (London 1992)
The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, ed. Elizabeth Johnson and Donald Moggridge (London, 1971-89), includes Keynes’s published works, unpublished papers and correspondence.
Portraits:
NPG; King’s College, Cambridge; see Harrod, Skidelsky. Moggridge and Collected Writings.