Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes — George Soros Copy Share Image
Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.” — Richard Davenport-Hines 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
In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. — John Maynard Keynes 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
“As Keynes wrote, with devastating understatement, ‘The age of economic internationalism was not particularly successful in avoiding war.” — Pankaj Mishra 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
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times. — Thomas J. Sargent 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
To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes… — James Meade 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
Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
“In some ways the most striking novelty in Keynesian doctrine was that (abstracting from effects on foreign trade) an all-round reduction in… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
In order to conquer the world of economics with his new theory, it was critical for Keynes to destroy his rivals within… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“Instead of using their vastly increased material and technical resources to build a wonder-city, they built slums; and they thought it right… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
Here we have the heart of the difference between Hayek and Keynes: one knew that markets work to give us the best… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
I don't have too much interest in teaching other people how to get rich. And that isn't because I fear the competition… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The psychology of the saver and the psychology of the investor is very closely connected with Keynes' distinction between risk and uncertainty.… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
Where did Keynes stand on overt fascism? From the scattered information now available, it should come as no surprise that Keynes was… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“Tim Kasser: ‘The heyday of humanistic psychology was in the 1960s and 1970s, when Keynes dominated. But since the rise of neo-liberalism… — James Davies Copy Share Image
“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was… — Eric J. Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“In the conditions of this “New World Order,” a crucial part of the contemporary world economy is a criminal economy, in which… — Todor Bombov Copy Share Image
“The analysis of the /General Theory /shows that inflation is a real, not a monetary, phenomenon. It operates in two stages (once… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“Keynes concluded that citizens both rich and poor would have to be led gradually out of capitalism, a base and repugnant system… — David Roth Singerman Copy Share Image
“The individualist insists that drastic depressions are the result of credit inflation; (not excessive savings, as the Keynesians would have it) which… — William F. Buckley Jr Copy Share Image
“Sometime in the early 1920s, Keynes outlined a book he planned to call “Essays on the Economic Future of the World” (figure… — David Roth Singerman Copy Share Image
“Those concessions might also explain why Keynes responded to the book as he did, a response that might surprise later generations. Keynes… — Bruce Caldwell 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
“Weintraub was an excellent student of both microtheory as well as Keynes’s General Theory.” — Paul Davidson Copy Share Image
If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Keynes did not teach us how to perform the miracle of turning a stone into bread, but the not at all miraculous… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“He was sceptical about the value of almost all work, save for the pleasure it gives the worker,' reported Virginia Woolf. 'He… — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
“Keynes knew perfectly well that fascist economic policy could never have succeeded in the long-run without war, occupation and exploitation.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
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