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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case.
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The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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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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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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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.
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Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I was brought up and for many years I taught
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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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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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