How the Great War and Its Aftermath Affected Keynes’s Thinking

Paul Davidson

Chapter 2 in John Maynard Keynes, 2007, pp 7-12 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Upon graduation from Cambridge in 1906, Keynes scored second on the Civil Service Exam. In a letter dated October 4, 1906 to his friend Lytton Strachey, Keynes noted that in this Civil Service Exam “real knowledge seems an absolute bar to success. I have done worst in the only two subjects of which I possessed a solid knowledge, Mathematics and Economics. … For Economics I got a relatively low percentage and was 8th or 9th in order of merit — whereas I knew the whole of both … in a real elaborate way” (Skidelsky, 1983, p. 175). Harrod (1951, p. 121) points out that later on Keynes explained his poor performance in economics by saying, “I evidently knew more about economics than my examiners”.

Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-230-23547-2_2

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