At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics…

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

Since the inauguration of Mr. Lee Myung-bak, I was very much disappointed with his politics and policies. Not only in economics, but also in…

— Park Won-soon

“The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“He was sceptical about the value of almost all work, save for the pleasure it gives the worker,' reported Virginia Woolf. 'He works only…

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“Instead of using their vastly increased material and technical resources to build a wonder-city, they built slums; and they thought it right and advisable…

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was to stick…

— Eric J. Hobsbawm

Where did Keynes stand on overt fascism? From the scattered information now available, it should come as no surprise that Keynes was an enthusiastic…

— Murray Rothbard

“After the war, when the problem of deficient effective demand seemed to have faded into the background, a fresh question came to the fore…

— Joan Robinson

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne - John Maynard Keynes Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep,…

— Thomas Aquinas

“As Keynes wrote, with devastating understatement, ‘The age of economic internationalism was not particularly successful in avoiding war.”

— Pankaj Mishra

Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a…

— Mancur Olson

The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.

— Murray Rothbard

“Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime efforts. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long…

— Tony Judt