In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESInvestment based on genuine long-term expectations is so difficult today as to be scarcely practicable.
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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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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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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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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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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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Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future .
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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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