Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThus, 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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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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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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Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.
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All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
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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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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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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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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.
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The expected never happens; it is the unexpected always.
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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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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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The principle objectives in life are love, the creation and enjoyment if aesthetic experience, the pursuit of knowledge. Love comes a long way first.
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