I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
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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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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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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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I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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