I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESLong run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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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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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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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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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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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States.
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The 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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The key to selecting the winner isn’t choosing the face you think is the most beautiful but rather the face other people will pick
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I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize – not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years – the way the world thinks about economic problems.
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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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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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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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If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
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What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
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