Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is…

“The contribution Marxism made to the socialism from which it arose was to offer a pseudo-scientific gloss to the ill-defined urges and impulses of…

— Jonah Goldberg

Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going to solve…

— Murray Rothbard

The unprecedented success of Keynesianism is due to the fact that it provides an apparent justification for the 'deficit spending' policies of contemporary governments.…

— Ludwig von Mises

Broadly speaking, Keynesianism means that the government has a specific responsibility for the behavior of the economy, that it doesn't work on its own…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Economics and politics are so intertwined and interlinked that politics now, mainstream politics, extreme center politics, are little else but a version of concentrated…

— Tariq Ali

But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, "deficit-financed government spending," and "the animal spirits of the spendthrift in the service of boosting "consumption demand"...…

— Ilana Mercer

“The general economic growth of the quarter of a century that followed World War II not surprisingly created many illusions. In the West, people…

— Samir Amin

Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy…

— Ha-Joon Chang

For better or worse, US Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian. You know what a cafeteria…

— Paul Samuelson

Keynesianism, if you add its flexible, muscular form during the Depression to its more rigid postwar version, lasted forty-five years. Our own Globalization, with…

— John Ralston Saul

“Weintraub was an excellent student of both microtheory as well as Keynes’s General Theory.”

— Paul Davidson

The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.

— Ludwig von Mises

“It is ironic that Keynesianism originated as a weapon to combat depression, but became universally accepted and "successful" only during (and because of!) the…

— André Gunder Frank

The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the…

— Leon Trotsky

“I should say that it was only for me that Marxism seemed over. Surely, I would tell G. at least once a week, it…

— Katha Pollitt