In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist ‘experiments’ of the 1930s. — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
There's no automatic mechanism in a market system that reconciles the desire to save and the desire to invest. And therefore, the… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
There is an unearthly, mystical element in Friedman's thought. The mere existence of a stock of money somehow promotes expenditure. But insofar… — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
“There was frequently a moral lesson lurking just below the surface in Hayek’s accounts, usually having to do with Keynes’s overweening self-… — Bruce Caldwell Copy Share Image
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There are still many people in America who regard depressions as acts of God. I think Keynes proved that the responsibility for… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
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
“But if America recalls for a moment what Europe has meant to her and still means to her, what Europe, the mother… — John Maynard Keynes 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
Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks… — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image
When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“The war has ended with every one owing every one else immense sums of money. Germany owes a large sum to the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“It would take expert navigators, like economists, to steer the world through the purgatory of capitalism and arrive at a future not… — David Roth Singerman Copy Share Image
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes — George Soros 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
