On Being Enslaved to the Ideas of Dead Economists

Post date: Jan 29, 2012 7:0:48 AM

Economist John Maynard Keynes castigates the intellectual elite.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from intellectual influences are usually slaves of some defunct economist.

John Maynard Keynes, cited in

The Tao of Abundance: Eight Ancient Principles for Abundant Living

by Laurence G. Boldt. Toronto: Penguin Books, 1991: ISBN 0140196064.