John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB, FBA, was an English economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. He built on and greatly refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles, and is widely considered to be one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and the founder of modern macroeconomics. His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian economics and its...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth5 June 1883
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight as the only remedy for the unfortunate collisions which are occurring. Yet, in truth, there is no remedy except to throw over the axiom of parallels and to work out a non-Euclidean geometry.
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.
Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
I can't remember my telephone number, but I know it was in the high numbers.
To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol - a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in heart and cheerful of spirit.
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case
Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly.