Keynes Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself, it was thus that it…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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In Europe and the United States the two decades following the Second World War will for long be remembered as a very good time, the…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Capital movements are no longer necessarily related to the production of goods and services. Through the financial markets of the world, capital movements today are…
— Eric Kierans
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The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in…
— Ben Bernanke
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Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist ‘experiments’ of the 1930s.
— Ralph Raico
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Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist.…
— Mancur Olson
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Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.
— Thomas J. Sargent
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Ridiculous as our market volatility might seem to an intelligent Martian, it is our reality and everyone loves to trot out the 'quote' attributed to…
— Jeremy Grantham
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Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
— Leonard Woolf
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Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient,…
— Neil Gaiman
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Neither claimed any responsibility for Milton Keynes, but both reported it as a success.
— Terry Pratchett
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Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but all…
— Milton Friedman
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done
— John Maynard Keynes
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To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an…
— James Meade
Who Wrote These Keynes Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Keynes Quotes as follows: