John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, died in…

“John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, died in 1946. But his ghost lives on. When economies around the world contracted sharply in late…

— Alan S. Blinder

“Halfway through the second term of Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal braintrusters began to worry about mounting popular concern over the national debt. In…

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“A sound banker is not one who foresees danger and avoids it,” wrote John Maynard Keynes, “but one who, when he is ruined, is…

— Anonymous

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that,…

— Ben Bernanke

Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By the time…

— Julian Simon

John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

— Warren Buffett

Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage to convince…

— L. Neil Smith

“When the facts change, I change my mind,” the economist John Maynard Keynes famously said. “What do you do, sir?”

— Nate Silver

“paraphrase economist John Maynard Keynes: reputations fare better if we are conventionally wrong than if we are unconventionally right.”

— Michelle Baddeley

As John Maynard Keynes taught us in the 1930s, in such situations, government is the only entity with both the motive and the ability…

— Robert H. Frank

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

— Leonard Woolf

In 1936, John Maynard Keynes predicted the 'euthanasia of the rentier' before the end of the 20th century. It did not happen.

— Guy Standing

As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek, or Irving…

— Robert J. Shiller

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas,” John Maynard Keynes famously observed, “but in escaping from the old ones.”

— Philip K. Howard

Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but…

— Milton Friedman