John Maynard Keynes developed new economic theories in response to the

Keynes developed his influential economic theories in response to the prolonged unemployment and economic collapse of the Great Depression in the 1930s. He argued that governments could use spending and other policies to increase demand and help revive the economy. The 1929 stock market crash helped trigger the crisis, but the broader period his ideas addressed was the Great Depression.

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