Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had…

There is only one difference between a bad economist and a good one: the bad economist confines himself to the visible effect; the good…

— Frederic Bastiat

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you…

— Paul Krugman

I would never make a good economist. You know, an economist is a man that can tell you anything about — well, he will…

— Will Rogers

The bad economist sees only what immediately strikes the eye; the good economist also looks beyond. The bad economist sees only the direct consequences…

— Henry Hazlitt

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

If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get…

— Winston Churchill

It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation;…

— Henry Hazlitt

I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late.…

— Joan Robinson

The first proponent of cortical memory networks on a major scale was neither a neuroscientist nor a computer scientist but .. a Viennes economist:…

— Joaquin Fuster

“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

“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

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