I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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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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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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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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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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Should government refrain from regulation (taxation), the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud can no longer be concealed.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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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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The power to become habituated to his surroundings and therefore to no longer be grateful for what is good in it is a marked characteristic of mankind and needs to be fought against if a person is to be happy.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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