Geburtstag: 5. Juni 1883
Todesdatum: 21. April 1946
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes [keɪnz] war ein britischer Ökonom, Politiker und Mathematiker. Er zählt zu den bedeutendsten Ökonomen des 20. Jahrhunderts und ist Namensgeber des Keynesianismus. Seine Ideen haben bis heute Einfluss auf ökonomische und politische Theorien.
— John Maynard Keynes
Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes, 1936, S. 296
— John Maynard Keynes
Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes", ins Dt. übers. von Fritz Waeger. 6. Aufl. Berlin: Duncker und Humblot 1935, S. 323.
— John Maynard Keynes
Aufsatz: "Ökonomische Perspektiven für unsere Enkel", zitiert von Andreas Weber in: Biokapital, Die Versöhnung von Ökonomie, Natur und Menschlichkeit, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3827007925, Seite 78
— John Maynard Keynes
"First Annual Report of the Arts Council (1945-1946)" zitiert von Andreas Weber in: Biokapital, Die Versöhnung von Ökonomie, Natur und Menschlichkeit, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 3827007925, Seite 7 - und von Hans H. Hinterhuber et. al. in: Servant leadership : Prinzipien dienender Unternehmensführung - Berlin : Erich Schmidt 2007. (Kolleg für Leadership und Management ; Band 3), ISBN 978-3-503-09785-2 - Seite 18
— John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes, Berlin 1935, S. 299, 300
— John Maynard Keynes
Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes, 1936, S. 161 books. google
— John Maynard Keynes
Ein Traktat über Währungsreform. Übersetzt von Ernst Kocherthaler. Duncker & Humblot, 1924. Seite 83 books. google
— John Maynard Keynes
Allgemeine Theorie der Beschäftigung, des Zinses und des Geldes, 1936, S. 295
— John Maynard Keynes
Reply to a criticism during the Great Depression of having changed his position on monetary policy, as quoted in "The Keynes Centenary" by Paul Samuelson, in The Economist Vol. 287 (June 1983), p. 19; later in The Collected Scientific Papers of Paul Samuelson, Volume 5 (1986), p. 275; also in Understanding Political Development: an Analytic Study (1987) by Myron Weiner, Samuel P. Huntington and Gabriel Abraham Almond, p. xxiv; this has also been paraphrased as "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?"
— John Maynard Keynes
Not attributed to Keynes until after his death. The original quote comes from Carveth Read and is:
It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.
Logic, deductive and inductive (1898), p. 351 [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18440/18440-h/18440-h.htm#Page_351]
— John Maynard Keynes
Last Words, as quoted in Ben Trovato's Art of Survival (2007) by Ben Trovato, p. 196
— John Maynard Keynes
Context: When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value. The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease … But beware! The time for all this is not yet. For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to everyone that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. For only they can lead us out of the tunnel of economic necessity into daylight.
as quoted in [http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1256603608595872&url=www.geocities.com/monedem/keyn.html "Keynes and the Ethics of Capitalism" by Robert Skidelsy]
— John Maynard Keynes
Context: I have sought with some touches of detail to bring out the solidarity and historical continuity of the High Intelligentsia of England, who have built up the foundations of our thought in the two and a half centuries, since Locke, in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, wrote the first modern English book. I relate below the amazing progeny of Sir George Villiers. But the lineage of the High Intelligentsia is hardly less interbred and spiritually inter-mixed. Let the Villiers Connection fascinate the monarch or the mob and rule, or seem to rule, passing events. There is also a pride of sentiment to claim spiritual kinship with the Locke Connection and that long English line, intellectually and humanly linked with one another, to which the names in my second section belong. If not the wisest, yet the most truthful of men. If not the most personable, yet the queerest and sweetest. If not the most practical, yet of the purest public conscience. If not of high artistic genius, yet the most solid and sincere accomplishment within many of the fields which are ranged by the human mind.
p. viii
— John Maynard Keynes
Context: Leninism is a combination of two things which Europeans have kept for some centuries in different compartments of the soul — religion and business. We are shocked because the religion is new, and contemptuous because the business, being subordinated to the religion instead of the other way round, is highly inefficient.
— John Maynard Keynes
Context: I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens.
p. 310
