It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
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When the facts change, I change my mind.
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The 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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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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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from 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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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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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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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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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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To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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One’s knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
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