 | Labor laws and legislation - 1965 - 808 pages
...Directory. It operates In the contract construction and utility Industries ля well as In manufacturing. The ideas of economists and political philosophers,...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... | |
 | Carriers - 1974 - 114 pages
...into pricing expectations under the proposed reduced regulation. John Maynard Keynes stated that "... the ideas of economists and political philosophers,...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - United States - 1971 - 880 pages
...of Employment, Interest and Money published in England at the end of 1935 he had this to say: ". . . the ideas of economists and political philosophers,...men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from all intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist." It would not have shocked... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - United States - 1955 - 1294 pages
...after a slight delay have an enormous impact upon policies. As Lord Keynes wrote so brilliantly : * "The Ideas of economists and political philosophers,...little else. Practical men. who believe themselves to bo quite exempt from any Intellectual influences, arc usually «lares of some defunct economist. Mailmen... | |
 | William N. Goetzmann, K. Geert Rouwenhorst - Business & Economics - 2005 - 418 pages
...Massachusetts experience derives from imitation or extension of some now forgotten earlier example. 2. "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite...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... | |
 | Aled Jones - Architecture - 2005 - 376 pages
...England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. John Maynard Keynes famously claimed that 'practical men, who believe themselves to be quite...influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist'.8 I am tempted to try to parallel this dictum by suggesting that we shall find, in a similar... | |
 | Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann - Philosophy - 2005 - 440 pages
...groups.60 321 Pointing to the persistent power of economic orthodoxy, John Maynard Keynes observed that "practical men, who believe themselves to be quite...from any intellectual influences, are usually the slave of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority who hear voices in the air are distilling their... | |
 | Michael Balter - Social Science - 2010 - 416 pages
...archaeologists cannot innocently pretend that they are simply gathering "facts" and have no need for theory: "Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences are, as Lord [John Maynard] Keynes pointed out, usually the unwitting slaves of some defunct theorist."... | |
 | John Barnes - Fiction - 2006 - 444 pages
...sorry I missed that part, but I'm glad I didn't see what they saw. Part Two Scribblers Madmen . . . the ideas of economists and political philosophers,...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... | |
 | Mark Latham - Australia - 2006 - 268 pages
...Dirksen, paraphrasing Victor Hugo, argued in the US Senate in favour of the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. The ideas of economists and political philosophers,...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... | |
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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... 
