What did John Maynard Keynes blue plaque do at 46 Gordon Square?

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The Story

# 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury Standing before this elegant Georgian townhouse in the heart of Bloomsbury, you're looking at the epicenter of Keynes's intellectual life for thirty transformative years. From 1916 until his death in 1946, this address served as both his residence and the nerve center from which he revolutionized economic theory, crafting the arguments that would reshape government policy worldwide. Within these walls, he developed the ideas that became *The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money* (1936)—a work so profound it fundamentally altered how nations understood and managed their economies. But Gordon Square was more than a study; it was a sanctuary in the heart of the Bloomsbury Set, where the economist moved between intimate dinners with philosophers, artists, and writers, and solitary hours wrestling with the mathematical proofs that would define twentieth-century economics, making this particular corner of London the birthplace of Keynesian thought itself.

Location

46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, Camden, WC1

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