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John Maynard Keynes Facts

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton was a British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies. (1883 – 1946)

Quotes by John Maynard Keynes

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
John Maynard Keynes

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
John Maynard Keynes

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
John Maynard Keynes

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes

Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
John Maynard Keynes

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
John Maynard Keynes

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
John Maynard Keynes

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes

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