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

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter II, Section III, p. 20

Attributed by [Hal R., Varian, http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/people/hal/NYTimes/2003-06-04.html, Dealing with Deflation, The New York Times, June 5, 2003, 2007-01-11]
Attributed

Essays in Persuasion (1931), The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill (1925)

Essays in Persuasion (1931), The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill (1925)

On David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson, in Chapter III, p. 41
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter II, Section I, p. 15

Attributed by [Will, Hutton, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/02/economics-economy-john-keynes, Will the real Keynes stand up, not this sad caricature?, Guardian, November 2, 2008, 2009-02-05]
Actual quote: "the Stock Exchange revalues many investments every day and the revaluations give a frequent opportunity to the individual (though not to the community as a whole) to revise his commitments. It is as though a farmer, having tapped his barometer after breakfast, could decide to remove his capital from the farming business between 10 and 11 in the morning and reconsider whether he should return to it later in the week."
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1935), Ch. 12 http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/general-theory/ch12.htm
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Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter IV, Section III, p. 105

Essays in Persuasion (1931), The End of Gold Standard (1931)

Source: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 8 : Rationing Price Control and Wage Control

Essays in Persuasion (1931), Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930)

Source: Essays In Biography (1933), Robert Malthus: The First of the Cambridge Economists, p. 128

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter VI, p. 238

Essays in Persuasion (1931), Clissold (1927)

Source: Essays in Persuasion (1931), The End of Laissez-faire (1926), Ch. 5

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter II, Section I, pp. 14-15

A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), Ch. 2 : Public Finance and Changes in the Value of Money

Source: Essays In Biography (1933), Alfred Marshall, p. 170; as cited in: Donald Moggridge (2002), Maynard Keynes: An Economist's Biography, p. 424

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

Source: Essays In Biography (1933), Alfred Marshall, p. 175

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter VII, p. 254

Essays in Persuasion (1931), The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill (1925)

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

“Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Report and A Discussion”, G.B. Shaw, J.M. Keynes et al., London, The New Statesman and Nation, (1934) p. 35

“Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Report and A Discussion”, G.B. Shaw, J.M. Keynes et al., London, The New Statesman and Nation, (1934) p. 34

At a King's College college feast, as quoted in 1949, John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946, Fellow and Bursar, (A memoir prepared by direction of the Council of King’s College, Cambridge University, England), Cambridge University Press, 1949, page 37. This in turn quoted in Quote Investigator, " My Only Regret Is That I Have Not Drunk More Champagne In My Life https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/07/11/more-champagne/", 2013-07-11
Attributed

Letter to Kingsley Martin on the Spanish Civil War (9 August 1937), quoted in Kingsley Martin, Editor: A Second Volume of Autobiography, 1931–45 (1968), p. 257
1930s

Am I a Liberal? (1925)

Source: Laissez-faire and Communism (1926), pp. 99