What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThere is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
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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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All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.
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If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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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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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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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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But my lord, when we addressed this issue a few years ago, didn’t you argue the other side?” He said, “That’s true, but when I get more evidence I sometimes change my mind. What do you do?
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The friends of gold will have to be extremely wise and moderate if they are to avoid a revolution.
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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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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country’s advantage at variance with its neighbours’ as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.
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