Théorie générale de l'emploi, de l'intérêt et de la monnaie,chapitre 24, 1936.
Théorie générale de l'emploi, de l'intérêt et de la monnaie, 1936
John Maynard Keynes citations célèbres
La Fin du laissez-faire, V, 1926.
La Fin du laissez-faire, 1926
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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Théorie générale de l'emploi, de l'intérêt et de la monnaie,chapitre 24, 1936.
Théorie générale de l'emploi, de l'intérêt et de la monnaie, 1936
Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.
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Théorie générale de l'emploi, de l'intérêt et de la monnaie, 1936.
Théorie générale de l'emploi, de l'intérêt et de la monnaie, 1936
John Maynard Keynes Citations
Déclaration de Paul Anthony Samuelson à propos de la Théorie générale.
Théorie générale de l'emploi, de l'intérêt et de la monnaie, 1936, Au sujet de la Théorie générale...
I have confidence that Americans can be brought to a sympathetic
Propositions pour une Union monétaire internationale, 1941
The Bank might set up an account in favour of the supranational policing body charged with the
Propositions pour une Union monétaire internationale, 1941
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. […] Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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Les Conséquences économiques de la paix, 1920
The idea underlying my proposals for a Currency Union is simple, namely [...] the
Propositions pour une Union monétaire internationale, 1941
John Maynard Keynes: Citations en anglais
“Ideas shape the course of history.”
As quoted in The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival (1976) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 97
Attributed
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”
As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1977) by Alan L. MacKay, p. 140
Attributed
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace
Source: Essays In Biography (1933), Alfred Marshall, p. 188
"A Short View of Russia" (1925); Originally three essays for the Nation and Athenaeum, later published separately as A Short View of Russia (1925), then edited down for publication in Essays in Persuasion (1931)
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - John Maynard Keynes / Quotes / Essays in Persuasion (1931)
Essays in Persuasion (1931), A Short View of Russia (1925)
Letter to Roy Harrod (4 July 1938), in The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XIV (1971), p. 297
Essays in Persuasion (1931), Social Consequences of Changes in The Value of Money (1923)
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter IV, Section I, p. 77
“We will not have any more crashes in our time.”
Conversation with Felix Somary in 1927, reported in Felix Somary, The Raven of Zurich, London: C. Hurst, 1986 (1960), 146-7
Attributed
Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 5 : A Plan for Deferred Pay, Family, Allowances and a Cheap Ration
“Logic, like lyrical poetry, is no employment for the middle-aged”
Source: Essays In Biography (1933), F. P. Ramsey, p. 296
Originally published in The Economic Journal, March 1930. and The New Statesman and Nation, October 3, 1931
Essays in Persuasion (1931), Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930)
Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 1 : The Character of the Problem
Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 2 : The Character of the Solution
Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 5 : A Plan for Deferred Pay, Family, Allowances and a Cheap Ration
On Isaac Newton
Essays In Biography (1933), Newton, the Man
First Annual Report of the Arts Council (1945-1946)
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter III, p. 33
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter II, Section III, p. 21
Source: Essays in Persuasion (1931), The End of Laissez-faire (1926), Ch. 1
National self-sufficiency (1933) http://www.panarchy.org/keynes/national.1933.html Section 3, republished in Collected Writings Vol. 11 (1982).
“I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.”
Letter to Duncan Grant (15 December 1917)
Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter VI, p. 250
“The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.”
"Francis Ysidro Edgeworth", p. 286; Originally published in The Economic Journal, March 1926
Ref: en.wikiquote.org - John Maynard Keynes / Quotes / Essays In Biography (1933)
Essays In Biography (1933), Francis Ysidro Edgeworth