The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESEverything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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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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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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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.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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