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What were John Maynard Keynes’s jobs?

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John Maynard Keynes was an economic analyst in the India Office, a teacher at Cambridge, the de facto financial manager of Britain’s war effort during World War I, and (in an unpaid capacity) the country’s chief economic representative to the United States and international fora during and immediately after World War II.

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