John Maynard Keynes citations

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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

Dernières paroles de Keynes.

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

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

Qualification ironique de Keynes au sujet des entrepreneurs

The idea underlying my proposals for a Currency Union is simple, namely [...] the
Propositions pour une Union monétaire internationale, 1941

Essays in Persuasion (1931), Social Consequences of Changes in The Value of Money (1923)

Source: Essays In Biography (1933), Alfred Marshall, p. 223

On the Cambridge Apostles of Cambridge University, in Essays in Biography (1933) Ch. 39; also later used in My Early Beliefs, a memoir he read to the Bloomsbury Group's Memoir Club in 1943.

Letter to Abba Lerner, 1942, On The Economics of Control

Essays in Persuasion (1931), Social Consequences of Changes in The Value of Money (1923)

Source: Essays in Persuasion (1931), The End of Laissez-faire (1926), Ch. 3

As quoted in The Guardian (8 June 1983). p. 82
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Source: Essays in Persuasion (1931), The End of Laissez-faire (1926), Ch. 2

Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 3 : Our Output Capacity and the National Income

Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 7 : The Release of Deferred Pay and a Capital Levy

Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 1 : The Character of the Problem

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter I, p. 3

Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 5 : A Plan for Deferred Pay, Family, Allowances and a Cheap Ration

Attributed by Sir George Schuster, Christianity and human relations in industry (1951), p. 109
Recent variant: Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
As quoted in Moving Forward: Programme for a Participatory Economy (2000) by Michael Albert, p. 128
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Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter VII, Section 1, p. 268

Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 1 : The Character of the Problem

On Georges Clemenceau, in Chapter III, p. 32
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)

Notes after a meeting with Albert Einstein in 1926, The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. 10, p. 383

Source: Essays In Biography (1933), Mr. Lloyd George: A Fragment, p. 35

Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 1 : The Character of the Problem

published in Manchester Guardian (1922); in Collected Writings, Volume 17, p. 370

Source: Essays In Biography (1933), Robert Malthus: The First of the Cambridge Economists, p. 148

Source: Essays In Biography (1933), Alfred Marshall, p. 253

Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 3 : Our Output Capacity and the National Income

Source: Essays In Biography (1933), Trotsky On England, p. 91

Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 1 : The Character of the Problem

A Revision of the Treaty (London: Macmillan, 1922), p. 186

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter II, Section III, p. 19

As quoted in Isms (2006) by Gregory Bergman, p. 105
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