I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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