The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhat an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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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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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?
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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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Ideas shape the course of history.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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