Niall Ferguson, a Harvard history professor, had suggested that the economist John Maynard Keynes was indifferent to the implications of his theories because he was gay.

The great economist John Maynard Keynes once proposed an international system to eliminate trade surpluses and deficits. Now the ‘Mar-a-Lago Accord’ aims to bring that idea to life.

First Posted: 5/4/2013 (AP) Niall Ferguson, a Harvard history professor and author, is apologizing for saying economist John Maynard Keynes didn’t care about the future because he was gay and ...

There are aspects of Keynes that haven’t worn so well, his disdain for long-run economic considerations among them. (“In the long run we are all dead,” he wrote in 1923.