Brilliant Quote by Thomas J. Sargent

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

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

There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian.

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

— Richard Davenport-Hines

“John Maynard Keynes, the great British economist, died in 1946. But his ghost lives on. When economies around the world contracted sharply in late…

— Alan S. Blinder

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

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

— George Soros

“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

Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist ‘experiments’ of the 1930s.

— Ralph Raico

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

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