John Maynard Keynes

I should have drunk more champagne.

John Maynard Keynes

Submitted by cvining on 2016-01-14

I should have drunk more champagne.

-- John Maynard Keynes, Probably apocryphal that these were his dying words, but very likely he did say something like this.

I work for a Government I despise for en

John Maynard Keynes

Submitted by cvining on 2016-01-14

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

-- John Maynard Keynes, Letter to Duncan Grant (15 December 1917)

The long run is a misleading guide to cu

John Maynard Keynes

Submitted by cvining on 2016-01-14

The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

-- John Maynard Keynes, The Theory of Money and the Foreign Exchanges, 1924

John Maynard Keynes