Quotes About Keynesianism

#1. Gore Vidal, the American writer, once described the American economic system as 'free enterprise for the poor and socialism for the rich'. Macroeconomic policy on the global scale is a bit like that. It is Keynesianism for the rich countries and monetarism for the poor.

Ha-Joon Chang

#2. The essence of Keynesianism is its complete failure to conceive the role that saving and capital accumulation play in the improvement of economic conditions.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. Reagonomics - a blend of monetarism and fiscal Keynesianism swathed in classical liberal and supply-side rhetoric - is in no way going to solve the problem of inflationary depression or of the business cycle.

Murray Rothbard

#4. But public works, economic protectionism, cheap money, 'deficit-financed government spending,' and 'the animal spirits of the spendthrift' in the service of boosting 'consumption demand' ... Doesn't Keynesianism simply appeal to the worst in human nature?

Ilana Mercer

#5. Economics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism.

Ayn Rand

#6. For better or worse, US Keynesianism was so far ahead of where it started. I am a cafeteria Keynesian. You know what a cafeteria catholic is?

Paul Samuelson

#7. Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach.

Francois Fenelon

#8. If there is a God, I thought, it's a painkiller.

Dan Simmons

#9. The General Theory was not truly revolutionary at all but merely old and oft-refuted mercantilist and inflationist fallacies dressed up in shiny new garb, replete with newly constructed and largely incomprehensible jargon.

Murray N. Rothbard

#10. But don't get me wrong. I'm not totally mad at you. I'm just sad. You were so nice to me when I was having my problems, but now that you're having yours, it seems there's not a thing I can do for you.

Haruki Murakami

#11. I think so," she [Claire] said. "Just watch your back, okay?"
"Nah, Michael's got mine." He [Shane] looked straight into her eyes.
"I've got yours.

Rachel Caine

#12. Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

Ronald Reagan

#13. All god wants us to do is do what he asks us to do.

Joyce Meyer

#14. There is one good thing about Marx: he was not a Keynesian

Murray N. Rothbard

#15. I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape.

Marilyn Monroe

#16. Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.

William McGregor Paxton

#17. Men were just plain ridiculous with how little time it took them to get handsome.

Gina Robinson

#18. Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

J.K. Rowling

#19. now and it mustn't be broken under any circumstance. There was so much yet to be said, but it would all come in good time. So many meaningless apologies. So many strained explanations. Promises

Stefan Ahnhem

#20. The reason I am so negative about the Federal Reserve's policies is that they only target core inflation and argue that they can't identify bubbles, but when each bubble bursts, they flood the system with liquidity that brings about unintended consequences.

Marc Faber

#21. I've always stuck with Gibsons. I've had Guilds and Fenders, too, but I always wind up going back to Gibsons.

Tommy Shaw

#22. Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

William Shakespeare