Editing Economist:John Maynard Keynes (section)

= John Maynard Keynes =

== Biography ==
British economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and economic policies.

== School of Thought ==
Keynesian Economics

== Notable Quotes ==

=== On Innovation Cycles and Market Bubbles ===
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones."<ref name="ref_1936_1">John Maynard Keynes, ''The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money'' (1936), p. viii, Palgrave Macmillan</ref>
"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."<ref name="ref_1930_1">John Maynard Keynes, ''Attributed'' (1930)</ref>
=== On Labor Market Disruption from Automation ===
"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."<ref name="ref_1923_p80_1">John Maynard Keynes, ''A Tract on Monetary Reform'' (1923), p. 80, Macmillan</ref>
=== On Innovation Cycles and Market Bubbles ===
"Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."<ref name="ref_1936_p383_1">John Maynard Keynes, ''The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money'' (1936), p. 383, Palgrave Macmillan</ref>
=== On Wealth Inequality and Technology ===
"The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty."<ref name="ref_1931_p344_1">John Maynard Keynes, ''Essays in Persuasion'' (1931), p. 344, Macmillan</ref>
=== On Digital Currency and Monetary Policy ===
"By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."<ref name="ref_1919_p235_1">John Maynard Keynes, ''The Economic Consequences of the Peace'' (1919), p. 235, Macmillan</ref>

== References ==
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