The History of the English Language in Ten Animated Minutes

John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies. Quotes[edit] I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.Letter to Duncan Grant (15 December 1917) But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be greatchanges in the code of morals... In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.Monetary Reform (1924), p. 172He was the nicest, and the only talented person I saw in all Berlin, except perhaps old Fuerstenberg … and Kurt Singer. Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. Listen to a recording of another user reading this quote: Full text online