But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen 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 disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
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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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It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.
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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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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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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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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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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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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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How long will it be necessary to pay City men so entirely out of proportion to what other servants of society commonly receive for performing social services not less useful or difficult?
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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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Gold is a relic from a time when government’s were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
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The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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