I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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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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In the long run we are all dead.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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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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Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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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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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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