Economics Quote by Murray Rothbard

Not one country in all the world has eliminated its economic participation [gender] gap - not one.

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

In order to conquer the world of economics with his new theory, it was critical for Keynes to destroy his rivals within Cambridge itself.…

— Murray Rothbard

Where did Keynes stand on overt fascism? From the scattered information now available, it should come as no surprise that Keynes was an enthusiastic…

— 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

The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat.

— Murray Rothbard

Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a…

— Mancur Olson

“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

“A sound banker is not one who foresees danger and avoids it,” wrote John Maynard Keynes, “but one who, when he is ruined, is…

— Anonymous

Keynes tried to show that market economies could settle in equilibrium states in which the labour market did not clear, and in which the…

— Paul Ormerod

I do not regard the Keynesian revolution as a great intellectual triumph. On the contrary, it was a tragedy because it came so late.…

— Joan Robinson

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

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“Economists who simply advised leaving the economy alone, governments whose first instincts, apart from protecting the gold standard by deflationary policies, was to stick…

— Eric J. Hobsbawm