<P> Following the global financial crisis of 2007 -- 08 , there was a worldwide resurgence of interest in Keynesian economics among prominent economists and policy makers . This included discussions and implementation of economic policies in accordance with the recommendations made by John Maynard Keynes in response to the Great Depression of the 1930s -- most especially fiscal stimulus and expansionary monetary policy . </P>
who was the economics professor who brought the keynesian ideas across the atlantic to the us
John Maynard Keynes