For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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I’d rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
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The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.
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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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One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accomplished.
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the destination, not the U.S.A. The hills, lakes and forests make it a place of peace and repose of the mind, such as one never finds in the U.S.A.
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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant’s profit, we have begun to change our civilization.
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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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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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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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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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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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