# John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes (5 juin 1883, Cambridge — 21 avril 1946, Firle, Sussex) est un économiste et un mathématicien britannique.

## Les Conséquences économiques de la paix, 1920

* (en) Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. […] Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
* Macroéconomie, Gregory N. Mankiw (trad. Jean Houard), éd. de Boeck, 2004 (ISBN 2744501573), p. 94, 121
* (en) The Economic Consequences of The Peace, John Maynard Keynes, éd. Macmillan, 1920 (ISBN 1-57392-139-4), p. 219-220

## La Fin du laissez-faire, 1926

* La Fin du laissez-faire, V, 1926.
* Dictionnaire thématique de citations économiques et sociales, Gérard Lelarge, éd. Hachette Éducation, 1993, p. 42-43

## Théorie générale de l'emploi, de l'intérêt et de la monnaie, 1936

* (en) Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the author to lose sight of the complexities and interdependencies of the real world in a maze of pretentious and unhelpful symbols.
* Théorie générale de l'emploi, de l'intérêt et de la monnaie, 1936.
* Dictionnaire des sciences économiques, Alain Beitone, Antoine Cazorla, Christine Dollo, Anne-Mary Drai, éd. Armand Colin, 2001, p. 191
* (en) The general theory of employment, interest, and money, John Maynard Keynes, éd. Prometheus Books, 1997, chap. 21 (« The theory of prices »), p. 298
* (en) 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 themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
* Théorie générale de l'emploi, de l'intérêt et de la monnaie,chapitre 24, 1936.
* Dictionnaire thématique de citations économiques et sociales, Gérard Lelarge, éd. Hachette Éducation, 1993, p. 115
* (en) The general theory of employment, interest, and money, John Maynard Keynes, éd. Prometheus Books, 1997, chap. 24, p. 383
* (en) The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher-in some degree. [...] He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future.
* Keynes, J.M. ‘Alfred Marshall’, The Economic Journal, vol. 34, no. 135 (1924), 311–372 .
* Dictionnaire thématique de citations économiques et sociales, Gérard Lelarge, éd. Hachette Éducation, 1993, p. 127

### Au sujet de la Théorie générale...

* Déclaration de Paul Anthony Samuelson à propos de la Théorie générale.
* Théories et modèles de la macroéconomie, P.A.Muet, éd. Economica, 1984, vol. Tome 1, p. 102

## Propositions pour une Union monétaire internationale, 1941

* (en) I have confidence that Americans can be brought to a sympathetic understanding of our difficulties. But, however hardup we may be for the time being, we [The British Commonwealth] - on the assumption which underlies all our post-war plans - shall be standing on the top of the world, one of the two or three masters of the future.
* Introduction du texte écrit par Keynes à l'intention du gouvernement britannique
* (en) Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (1941), D. Moggridge, éd. Mac Millan, 1980, t. XXV, partie Proposals for an International Currency Union (Second Draft, November 18, 1941), section I, p. 42-66
* (en) The idea underlying my proposals for a Currency Union is simple, namely [...] the establishment of an International Clearing Bank.
* Au sujet de la création d'une « banque centrale internationale »
* (en) Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (1941), D. Moggridge, éd. Mac Millan, 1980, t. XXV, partie Proposals for an International Currency Union (Second Draft, November 18, 1941), section II, p. 42-66
* (en) The Bank might set up an account in favour of the supranational policing body charged with the duty of preserving the peace and maintaining international order. If any country were to infringe its properly authorised orders, the policing body might be entitled to request the Governors of the Clearing Bank to hold the Clearing Account of the central bank of the delinquent country to its order and permit no further transactions on the account except by its authority. This would provide an excellent machinery for enforcing a financial blockade.
* (en) Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes (1941), D. Moggridge, éd. Mac Millan, 1980, t. XXV, partie Proposals for an International Currency Union (Second Draft, November 18, 1941), section X, p. 42-66

## Citations rapportées

* « Les penseurs qui ont fait de l'économie une science », John Maynard Keynes, Capital, nº Hors-série, mai/juin 2007, p. 62
* Qualification ironique de Keynes au sujet des entrepreneurs
* Houellebecq économiste, Bernard Maris, éd. Flammarion, 2014 (ISBN 978-2-0813-7567-3), p. 145
* Dernières paroles de Keynes.
* L'art de ne pas travailler, Ernie Zelinski, éd. Eyrolles, 2006 (ISBN 2-7081-3634-8), p. 251
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