📘 John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (1883-1946), was a British economist widely considered to be one of the founders of modern macroeconomics and the most influential economist of the 20th century. The economic Consequences of the Peace was written after he resigned from his positions with the British government "when it became evident that hope could no longer be entertained of substantial modification in the draft Terms of Peace" after World War I to address the economic problems of post-WWI Europe.