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“I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.”
“Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of Opinion—how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and, through them, the events of history.”
“So the political animal who cannot bring himself to utter the contemptible words, "I am no party man," would almost rather belong to any party than to none. If he cannot find a home by the principle of attraction, he must find one by the principle of repulsion... rather than stay out in the cold.”
“Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis, and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.”
“It is extraordinarily difficult to secure the right outcome for this resultant of many separate policies. It depends on weighing one advantage against another. There is hardly a conceivable decision within the range of the supply services which does not affect it.”
“We will not have any more crashes in our time.”
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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, foi um economista inglês cujos escritos são considerados a base para a escola de pensamento conhecida como economia keynesiana, bem como suas várias ramificações. Originalmente treinado em matemática, ele construiu e refinou trabalhos anteriores sobre as causas dos ciclos econômicos. Suas ideias, posteriormente desenvolvidas após sua morte como Novo Keynesianismo, são vistas como fundamentais para a macroeconomia mainstream. Ele foi referido como o "pai da macroeconomia" e é considerado um dos economistas mais influentes do século XX.
