Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
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The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, – but generally to be obtained at your neighbor’s expense.
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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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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.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
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The love of money as a possession. Will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity.
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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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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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Ideas shape the course of history.
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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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The duty of “saving” became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
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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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By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds.
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Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
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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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