Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was… — Mancur Olson Copy Share Image
My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne - John Maynard Keynes Sorrow can be alleviated by… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The idea of confidence, of the emotions of the population, is an incredibly important one in economics. John Maynard Keynes called it… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
“A sound banker is not one who foresees danger and avoids it,” wrote John Maynard Keynes, “but one who, when he is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As far as I can find, almost no one in the profession - not even luminaries like John Maynard Keynes, Friedrich Hayek,… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
You don't need to be a John Maynard Keynes to understand that if Britain leaves the European market, a border will have… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
“I’m heartened by our dissatisfaction, because dissatisfaction is a world away from indifference. The widespread nostalgia, the yearning for a past that… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
In 1936, John Maynard Keynes predicted the 'euthanasia of the rentier' before the end of the 20th century. It did not happen. — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face". — Leonard Woolf Copy Share Image
As John Maynard Keynes taught us in the 1930s, in such situations, government is the only entity with both the motive and… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
“Halfway through the second term of Franklin Roosevelt, the New Deal braintrusters began to worry about mounting popular concern over the national… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
“The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of life, everyone… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
“paraphrase economist John Maynard Keynes: reputations fare better if we are conventionally wrong than if we are unconventionally right.” — Michelle Baddeley Copy Share Image
“When the facts change, I change my mind,” the economist John Maynard Keynes famously said. “What do you do, sir?” — Nate Silver Copy Share Image
Only someone as puffed up and demented as John Maynard Keynes, every left wing fascist's sainted mentor in this connection, could manage… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital… — Eric Kierans Copy Share Image
One of the most important skills of the economist, therefore, is that of simplification of the model. Two important methods of simplification… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, died in 1946. But his ghost lives on. When economies around the world contracted sharply… — Alan S. Blinder Copy Share Image
John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“Modern economics, by which I mean the style of economics taught and practised in today's leading universities, likes to start the enquiries… — Partha Dasgupta Copy Share Image
Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By… — Julian Simon Copy Share Image
“John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, died in 1946. But his ghost lives on. When economies around the world contracted sharply… — Alan S. Blinder Copy Share Image
I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas,” John Maynard Keynes famously observed, “but in escaping from the old ones.” — Philip K. Howard Copy Share Image
