The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIf economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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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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The 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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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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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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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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I am myself impressed by the great social advantages of increasing the stock of capital until it ceases to be scarce.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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The idea behind stamped money is sound.
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
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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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Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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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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It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.
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