Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat … - Freeman Dyson

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I think I'm just really sensitive to the world. I really feel like I spend a lot of time "turned off".

Freeman Dyson

Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than half of our gross national product, and all of out foreign exchange, was being spent on the war. . . . I was lucky to be present at one of his rare appearances in Cambridge, when he gave a lecture with the title "Newton, the Man. ". . . Four years later he died of heart failure, precipitated by overwork and the hardships of crossing the Atlantic repeatedly in slow propeller-driven airplanes under wartime conditions.

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