Conquer Quote by Murray Rothbard

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

Keynes was chief economic adviser to the British government and largely responsible for keeping the British economy afloat at a time when more than…

— Freeman Dyson

Keynes was a great economist. In every discipline, progress comes from people who make hypotheses, most of which turn out to be wrong, but…

— Milton Friedman

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

— Thomas J. Sargent

“In a BBC broadcast in 1934, when he was a year away from finishing The General Theory, Keynes pinpointed the fundamental difference between an…

— Stephen A. Marglin

When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.

— Joan Robinson

“Keynes concluded that citizens both rich and poor would have to be led gradually out of capitalism, a base and repugnant system of morals.…

— David Roth Singerman

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

“In Keynes’s time, physicists were first grappling with the concept of quantum mechanics, which, among other things, imagined a cosmos governed by two entirely…

— Peter D. Schiff

Keynes eliminated economic theory's ancient role as spoilsport for inflationist and statist schemes, leading a new generation of economists on to academic power and…

— Murray Rothbard

“The intellectual case for planning was never very strong. Keynes, as we have seen, regarded economic planning much as he did pure market theory:…

— Tony Judt

“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