John Maynard Keynes, Essays In Biography (1933) "Francis Ysidro Edgeworth", p. 290.

Marshall, remembering his mixed parentage, used to say 'Francis is a charming fellow, but you must be careful with Ysidro!'"

— John Maynard Keynes on Francis Ysidro Edgeworth

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John Maynard Keynes

About John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies.