I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
More John Maynard Keynes Quotes
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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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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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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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I believe that the future will learn more from the spirit of Gesell than from that of Marx .
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.
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When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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Conservatism leads nowhere; it satisfies no ideal.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.
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If we consistently act on the optimistic hypothesis, this hypothesis will tend to be realised; whilst by acting on the pessimistic hypothesis we can keep ourselves for ever in the pit of want.
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong – especially if one is promptly found out.
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I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England.
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