Intellectual Quote by James Meade

Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

— Thomas J. Sargent

I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their…

— Jessye Norman

Attempting mischievous and salutary irritation of his peers ... Keynes may only succeed in becoming an academic idol of our worst cranks and charlatans…

— Henry Calvert Simons

Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist ‘experiments’ of the 1930s.

— Ralph Raico

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

— Eric Fellner

“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

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

— Murray Rothbard

“I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed by the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“He was one of those people whose ideas are too lively to be confined in their brains and spill out into the world to…

— Susanna Clarke

Keynes was scarcely a 'revolutionary' in any real sense. He possessed the tactical wit to dress up ancient statist and inflationist fallacies with modern,…

— Murray Rothbard

“The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“Parsons was Winston’s fellow employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile…

— George Orwell