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As quoted in The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival (1976) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 97

Ideas shape the course of history.

— John Maynard Keynes

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John Maynard Keynes

About 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.