John Maynard Keynes
- british economist
- governments should spend their way out of depression
- borrow money to be repaid after economy recovers
- deficit financing
- projects should be of value to the country
- went against Adam Smiths theories
- USA. Japan and Hitler's Germany all use this with success
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Summary
british economist introduced deficit financing