Citations
Part One: Introduction
Chapter 1: Commonsense Economics
. Caroline Baum, Interview, Bloomberg News, March 2, 2009.
. Harvard Magazine (NovemberDecember, 2008): 60.
. Marc Faber, Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report (March 2009): 4.
. Peter Bernstein, Economics and Portfolio Strategy ( July 15, 2008): 3.
. Marc Farber, Gloom, Boom, and Doom Report (September 2008): 20. Housing bubble quotations compiled by Fred Sheehan.
. CNN interview, cited in Weekly Standard (February, 2, 2009): 15; and interview with Cal Thomas, Washington Times (January 12, 2009), n. p.
. G. Mankiw, Sunday Money, New York Times (November 30, 2008): 4.
. Jacques Rueff, in Henry Hazlitt, ed., The Critics of Keynesian Economics (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1960), 239.
. M. Continetli, The Stimulus Trap, Weekly Standard (January 19, 2009): 21.
. John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1997), 83.
. John Maynard Keynes, Newton, the Man, in Collected Writings, vol. 10, Essays in Biography (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martins Press, 1972), 365.
. Henry Hazlitt, The Failure of The New Economics (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1978), 67.
. John H. Williams, in Hazlitt, Critics of Keynesian Economics, 285.
. Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes, vol. 2, The Economist as Savior 19201937 (London: Macmillan, 2000), 344.
Part Two: What Keynes Really Said
Chapter 2: Drive Interest Rates Down
. Keynes, General Theory, 351.
. John Maynard Keynes, Memo related to Macmillan Committee Report, in Collected Writings, vol. 20, Activities 192931: Rethinking Employment and Unemployment Policies (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martins Press, 1981), 273.
. Keynes, General Theory, 242.
. Ibid., 351.
. Ibid., 174, 351.
. Ibid., 208, 309.
. John Maynard Keynes, Collected Writings, vol. 6, A Treatise on Money: The Applied Theory of Money (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martins Press, 1971), 339.
. Keynes, General Theory, 309.
. Ibid., 16768, 19799, 268, 298.
. John Maynard Keynes, TheCollected Writings, vol. 5, A Treatise on Money: The Pure Theory of Money (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martins Press, 1971), chap. 2 discusses mechanics.
. Keynes, General Theory, 16768, 26768.
. Ibid., 8283.
. Ibid., 328.
. Ibid., 220.
. Ibid., 376.
. Ibid.
. Ibid., 221, 376.
. Keynes, BBC Broadcast, in Collected Writings (vol. 20), 325.
. John Maynard Keynes, Collected Writings, vol. 28, Social, Political, and Literary Writings (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martins Press, 1982), 39193, 398. In this case Keynes at least considers the possibility of deliberately raising interest rates to help cool inflation.
. Keynes, General Theory, 322n, 326.
. Ibid., 322.
. Keynes, Collected Writings (vol. 6), 176.
. Keynes, General Theory, 320.
. Ibid., 322.
. Ibid., 321.
. John Maynard Keynes, London Times ( January 1214, 1937), in Collected Writings, vol. 21, Activities 193139: World Crisis and Policies in Britain and America (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martins Press, 1982), 38; also cited in Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes, vol. 3, Fighting for Britain 19371946 (London: Macmillan, 2000), 22.
. John Maynard Keynes, Collected Writings, vol. 22, Activities 193945: Internal War Finance (London: Macmillan; New York: St. Martins Press, 1978), 281.
. Keynes, General Theory, 303.
. Ibid., 300.
. Ibid., 303.
. Joan Robinson, An Introduction to The Theory of Employment(London: Macmillan, 1937), 96; also cited in Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes (vol. 2), 603.
. Keynes, General Theory, 24950.
. Ibid., 321.
. Keynes, London Times ( January 1214, 1937), in Collected Writings (vol. 21), 390.
. Byrd Jones, The Role of Keynesians in Wartime Policy and Postwar Planning, American Economic Review: 12728, cited in Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes (vol. 3), 121; see also 43, 8890, 503.
. Keynes, General Theory, 372.
. Ibid.
. Ibid., 164, 243, 3089.
. Ibid., 164.
. Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes (vol. 3), 227, 247, 255, 3023.
. Keynes, Collected Writings (vol. 6), 193.
. Keynes, General Theory, 340.
. Ibid., 334.
. Ibid., 335, 341.
. Ibid., 353.
. Ibid.
. Ibid., 371.
. Ibid.
Chapter 3: Spend More, Save Less, and Grow Wealthy
. Ibid., 104.
. John Maynard Keynes, Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, in Essays in Persuasion (New York: W. W. Norton, 1963), 370.
. John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace(New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1920), 19.
. Ibid., 1920.
. Amy Kass, Giving Well, Doing Good: Readings for Thoughtful Philanthropists (South Bend, IN: Indiana University Press, 2008), cited in Weekly Standard (May 26, 2008): 47.
. Essays in Persuasion, 8485.
. Keynes, General Theory, 32.
. Ibid., 26.
. Ibid., 309.
. Ibid., 210.
. Ibid., 347.
. Ibid., 111.
. Ibid., 105, 21718.
. Ibid., 220.
. Ibid., 129.
. Ibid.
. Ibid.
. Keynes, letter to Poet T. S. Eliot, in Essays in Persuasion, 384; also cited in Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes (vol. 3), 279.
. Keynes, General Theory, 37273.
. Ibid., 373.
Chapter 4: The Immoralist (A Digression)
. The author must apologize for the lack of a citation. The incident was recounted in a book read long ago and a search for a citation proved unavailing.
. Keynes, My Early Beliefs, in Collected Writings (vol. 10), 446.
. Keynes, Essays in Persuasion, 298.
. Ibid.
. Skidelsky, Letter to Cyril Connolly, in John Maynard Keynes(vol. 3), 169.
. Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes (vol. 2), 475.
. Ibid., 423.
. Keynes, Essays in Persuasion, 125.
. Keynes, Collected Writings (vol. 10), 44647, second note.
. Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes (vol. 3), 18.
. Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes (vol. 3), 493.
. Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey: The New Biography (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), 105.
. Keynes, My Early Beliefs, in Collected Writings (vol. 10), 441.
. Levy, the Bloomsbury Group, in Milo Keynes, ed., Essays on John Maynard Keynes (New York: Cambridge, 1975), 69; also in Paul Johnson, Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), 30.
. Robert Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes, vol. 1, Hopes Betrayed 18831920 (London: Macmillan, 2000), 15859.
. Keynes, My Early Beliefs, in Collected Writings (vol. 10), 445.
. Ibid.
. Keynes, Essays in Persuasion, 319.
. Ibid., 321.
. Ibid.
. Ibid.
. Ibid., 366.
. Ibid., 372.
. Matt. 19:28; and Keynes, Essays in Persuasion, 372.
. Matt. 19:24.
. Keynes, Essays in Persuasion, 368.
. Ibid., 367.
. Wilhelm Rpke, A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the Free Market (South Bend, IN: Gateway, 1960), 109.
. Skidelsky, John Maynard Keynes (vol. 2), 233.
. Keynes, Essays in Persuasion