20th century Quote by Guy Standing

“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

“It would take expert navigators, like economists, to steer the world through the purgatory of capitalism and arrive at a future not just of…

— David Roth Singerman

In England, you have what I would call government-imposed euthanasia

— Nat Hentoff

“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

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia, the most influential is the 'slippery slope': once we allow doctors to kill patients, we will not…

— Peter Singer

If I'd proposed solving the pension problem by compulsory euthanasia for every fifth pensioner I'd have got less trouble for it.

— Tony Blair

Keynesianism, if you add its flexible, muscular form during the Depression to its more rigid postwar version, lasted forty-five years. Our own Globalization, with…

— John Ralston Saul

“At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“Keynes knew perfectly well that fascist economic policy could never have succeeded in the long-run without war, occupation and exploitation.”

— Tony Judt

“As Keynes wrote, with devastating understatement, ‘The age of economic internationalism was not particularly successful in avoiding war.”

— Pankaj Mishra

“Commentary would come to life in 1945 amid widespread predictions that mass unemployment would resume as soon as war production ebbed. But it wouldn’t…

— Benjamin Balint