John Neville Keynes

For his son, see John Maynard Keynes.

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

John Neville Keynes
Born	31 August 1852 Salisbury, England, UK
Died	15 November 1949 (aged 97) Cambridge, England, UK
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Academic, philosopher, economist
Spouse	Florence Ada Brown
Children	John Maynard Keynes Geoffrey Keynes Margaret Neville Keynes
Academic background
Education	Amersham Hall
Alma mater	University College London Pembroke College, Cambridge
Academic work
Institutions	Pembroke College, Cambridge
Main interests	Applied economics, macroeconomics
Notable ideas	Methodenstreit, formal logic

Biography

Born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Keynes was the son of Dr 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. 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 (1891)

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

• John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946), the economist.
• Geoffrey Keynes (1887–1982), a surgeon.
• Margaret Neville Keynes (1890–1974), who married Archibald Hill (winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physiology) in 1913.

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

See also

• Keynes family

Sources

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

External links

• Works by or about John Neville Keynes at Wikisource