Editing John Maynard Keynes (section)

===Postwar===
After the war, Keynes continued to represent the United Kingdom in international negotiations despite his deteriorating health. He succeeded in obtaining preferential terms from the United States [[Anglo-American loan|for new and outstanding debts]] to facilitate the rebuilding of the British economy.{{r|timeline|at=[https://www.maynardkeynes.org/keynes-career-timeline.html#intfin §1945 to 1946]}}

Just before his death in 1946, Keynes told Henry Clay, a professor of social economics and advisor to the [[Bank of England]],<ref>{{cite book
|first=Richard
|last=Sayers
|authorlink=Richard Sidney Sayers
|title=The Bank of England, 1891–1944|volume=1
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8hY9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA325
|isbn=978-0-521-21067-6
|year=1976
|publisher=CUP Archive
|access-date=25 August 2020
|archive-date=17 April 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417174517/https://books.google.com/books?id=8hY9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA325
|url-status=live
}}</ref> of his hopes that [[Adam Smith]]'s "[[invisible hand]]" could help Britain out of the economic hole it was in: "I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago."{{r|timeline|at=[https://www.maynardkeynes.org/keynes-career-timeline.html#intfin §1945 to 1946]}}