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Quotes from John Maynard Keynes: The Return of the Master — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

1939–2026 United Kingdom

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Keynes is not just for the foxhole, but for the emerging world order.

John Maynard Keynes: The Return of the Master (2009)

In ethics Keynes was a Platonist, in politics he was an Aristotelian. His ethics pointed him towards the ideal; his politics towards moderation.

John Maynard Keynes: The Return of the Master (2009)

All epoch-defining events are the result of conjunctures - the correlation of normally unconnected happenings which jolts humanity out of its existing rut and sets it on a new course.

John Maynard Keynes: The Return of the Master (2009)

Keynes's idea was very simple. Monetary and fiscal policy should have a single goal, jointly pursued, of maintaining a full employment level aggregate demand.

John Maynard Keynes: The Return of the Master (2009)

To understand the crisis we need to get beyond the blame game. For at the root of the crisis was not failures of character or competence, but a failure of ideas.

John Maynard Keynes: The Return of the Master (2009)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.