At the end of 2008, Verband Deutscher Treasurer commissioned a survey to examine the functions of a corporate treasury. We discuss the results.
John Maynard Keynes. Who was 'John Maynard Keynes'. John Maynard Keynes was a 19th-century British philosopher and economist who spent his working years with the East India Company and is known as the father of Keynesian economics.
DEFINITION of 'Keynesian Economics'. An economic theory of total spending in the economy and its effects on output and inflation. Keynesian economics was developed by the British economist John Maynard Keynes during the 1930s in an attempt to understand the Great Depression. Keynes advocated increased government expenditures and lower taxes to stimulate demand and pull the global economy out of the Depression.