Quote by Thomas J. Sargent Download Open image “I'm happy to say I am a Harrison-Kreps-Keynesian.” — Thomas J. Sargent ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes — George Soros Copy Share Image
I don't think Keynesian Monetarism has to be Democrat or Republican. — Charles L. Evans Copy Share Image
Henry Ford, in a sense, was the first Keynesian. He paid his assembly workers high wages so they could afford to buy his cars. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
I'm the catalyst for the downfall of the Blairites, the Clintonites, the Bushites, and all these dreadful people who work hand in glove with… — Nigel Farage Copy Share Image
For better or worse, US Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian. You know what a cafeteria… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist ‘experiments’ of the 1930s. — Ralph Raico Copy Share Image
“Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime efforts. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long without one another. And since the experience of the interwar years had clearly revealed the inability of capitalists to protect their own best interests, the liberal state would have to do it for them whether they… — Tony Judt Copy Share
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for war. During the Depression very modest outlays for the unemployed seemed socially debilitating, economically unsound. Now expenditures many times greater for weapons and soldiers were perfectly safe. It's a difference that still persists. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share
“The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.” — Richard Davenport-Hines Copy Share Image
I wasn't the brightest kid, not by a long shot. I was interested in football, in girls, in getting my work done with the… — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models, which of… — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
In the 1980s, there were occasions when it made sense to say, 'it is too difficult to maximize the likelihood function, and besides if… — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received… — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists. — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
