Around Quote by Ben Bernanke

In the long run we are all dead.

— John Maynard Keynes

“John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, died in 1946. But his ghost lives on. When economies around the world contracted sharply in late…

— Alan S. Blinder

“John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, died in 1946. But his ghost lives on. When economies around the world contracted sharply in late…

— Alan S. Blinder

“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

“We are living now in what is known as the Welfare State, which means – broadly – that everybody is completely destitute.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“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

“Longevity has fucked up our pensions, our work–life balance, our health services, our housing, our happiness. It’s fucked up old age itself.”

— Margaret Drabble

“When we are healthy, wealthy and powerful, we forget about our mortality. It’s only when irreparable cracks set in that we come back to…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

It seems that neither the Keynesian nor the Marxian prognosis of the future of capitalism is being fulfilled and we are left without any…

— Joan Robinson

Are we not all immortal till our work is done?

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

We may all end up dead, but we're sticking it to them in the meantime.

— Cinda Williams Chima

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.

— Brooks Stevens