Bureaucrats Quote by John Maynard Keynes

“the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— John Maynard Keynes

“[T]he ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.…

— Anonymous

Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority,…

— John Maynard Keynes

“Economics ought to be a magpie discipline, taking in philosophy, history and politics. But heterodox approaches have long since been banished from most faculties,…

— Aditya Chakrabortty

“The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“My experience is that people who call themselves "The Intellectuals" understand theories, but they do not understand things. I have long been convinced that,…

— Booker T. Washington

“There is inevitably a chicken-and-the-egg character to any debate as to whether economic growth produces its appropriate mental character or is produced by it.…

— Keith Thomas

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual…

— Mark Twain

“Intellectually, what is stimulating to a young man is a problem of obvious practical importance. A young man learning economics, for example, ought to…

— Bertrand Russell

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

— Henry Hazlitt

Today this is what we are confronted with, I mean what is pure ideology, which takes no account of the human context. In economics…

— Catherine Camus

Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

— Charles Fillmore