John Maynard Keynes Quote by Michelle Baddeley

It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their truths. It…

— Henry Hazlitt

“The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economics touches so much of life, everyone wants to…

— Paul Krugman

“I am not an economist, but things are not as bad as they seem. I have a great deal of confidence in our future.”

— Walt Elias Disney

“Wouldn't economics make a lot more sense if it were based on how people actually behave, instead of how they should behave?”

— Dan Ariely

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

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

There is an old saying, or should be, that it is a wise economist who recognizes the scope of his own generalizations.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“Keynes declared capitalism the best system ever devised to achieve a civilized economic society. But he recognized in it two major faults—“its failure to…

— Robert B. Reich

“This bias may be at the root of all other biases. Yet being right has little to do with making money.”

— Tharp, Van