Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESMen will not always die quietly.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Investment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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It is Enterprise which build and improves the world’s possessions. If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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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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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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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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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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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 conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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