 But apart from this contemporary mood, the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe...  Practitioners' Journal - 532. lappuse1974Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Deepak Nayyar - 2002 - 412 lapas
...themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defonct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in...from some academic scribbler of a few years back. (Keynes 1936: 383) If anything, these words are more true in our media age. Rightly or wrongly, the... | |
 | N. H. Buck - 2002 - 428 lapas
...tale to tell. But, from the start, it also had a practical purpose. As Keynes once memorably said, 'Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air,...from some academic scribbler of a few years back' (Keynes, 1g36, 383). Out of inadequate scholarship can come misguided policy. Passionate intensity,... | |
 | Kenneth R. Hoover - 2003 - 362 lapas
...politics of the twenty-first century come into focus. Ideas come from people. Keynes wrote famously that Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite...from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment... | |
 | M. de Jong, K. Lalenis, V.D. Mamadouh - 2002 - 342 lapas
...INTRODUCTION Indeed the world is ruled by little else [than ideas]. Practical men, who believe themselves quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are...from some academic scribbler of a few years back. (John Maynard Keynes, 1936). ...comment un pays autrefois renomme comme lieu de naissance de 1'Etat-providence,... | |
 | Frank Bönker, Klaus Müller, Andreas Pickel - 2003 - 308 lapas
...be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economists. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are...from some academic scribbler of a few years back" (Keynes 1936/73: 383). Second, the above interpretation of much of the postcommunism debate as a rivalry... | |
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...usually exaggerated," says J. M. Keynes, "when compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. . . . Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are...from some academic scribbler of a few years back." — PETER VIERECK Mount Holyoke College January, 1961 METAPOLITICS CBAPTEB I THE "GERMAN PROBLEM' Zwei... | |
 | William M. Dugger, Howard J. Sherman - 2003 - 288 lapas
...world from being ruled by the gradual encroachment of the wrong ideas, by "madmen in authority . . . distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back." Distillation is a fractional selection process. Keynes was acutely aware of the use of archaic, socially... | |
 | David M. Ricci - 2004 - 326 lapas
...See Keynes, The GeneralTheory of Employment, Interest, and Money (London: Macmillan, 1936), p. 383: The ideas of economists and political philosophers,...from some academic scribbler of a few years back. For a modern example, see Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars (New York: Basic, 1977), p. xi: Our... | |
 | Andrew E. Barshay - 2004 - 354 lapas
...that we feel the force of the famous concluding observations of JM Keynes's General Theory (1936): The ideas of economists and political philosophers,...from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment... | |
 | Walter Lippmann - 1956 - 452 lapas
...under the law, in the rights 1 JM Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, p. 383. "Practical men who believe themselves to be quite...from some academic scribbler of a few years back." * FW Hirst, Economic Freedom, p. 40. of man rather than the sovereignty of kings or of majorities.... | |
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