John Maynard Keynes

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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton in the County of Sussex CB, FBA (/ˈkeɪnz/ KAYNZ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, and informed the economic policies of governments. He built on and greatly refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles, and is widely considered to be one of the founders of modern macroeconomics and the most influential economist of the 20th century. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/John+Maynard+Keynes">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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• “I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.”
• “The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.”
• “The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists.”
• “The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.”
• “The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.”
• “The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.”

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