Ceo Quote by Barry Ritholtz

Here we have the heart of the difference between Hayek and Keynes: one knew that markets work to give us the best of all…

— Jeffrey Tucker

“It is ironic that Keynesianism originated as a weapon to combat depression, but became universally accepted and "successful" only during (and because of!) the…

— André Gunder Frank

“There was a pretext, albeit slender, that might have prompted Hayek to reach out to Keynes: Keynes had succeeded Edgeworth as editor of the…

— Nicholas Wapshott

So many of the great thought leaders that have shaped economics - Gary Becker, Milton Friedman - what an unbelievable success story they've had…

— Kenneth C. Griffin

“The Keynesian world is a world in which there are two distinct classes of actors: the skilled investor, ‘who, unperturbed by the prevailing pastime,…

— Ludwig Lachmann

“paraphrase economist John Maynard Keynes: reputations fare better if we are conventionally wrong than if we are unconventionally right.”

— Michelle Baddeley

Friedrich Hayek, who died on March 23, 1992 at age 92, was arguably the greatest social scientist of the twentieth century. By the time…

— Julian Simon

When the economy was going up, [Milton Friedman and I] both gave the same advice, and when the economy was going down, we gave…

— Paul Samuelson

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

— Vernon L. Smith

F. A. Hayek is probably the most prominent advocate of capitalism in the present period.

— Peter L. Berger

With the passing of Milton Friedman on November 16, 2006, we lost one of the great champions of free markets.

— Steve Hanke

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

— John Kenneth Galbraith