What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESBut 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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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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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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For my own part, I believe that there is social and psychological justification for significant inequalities of incomes and wealth.
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When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
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Economics is a very dangerous science.
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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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It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.
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When somebody persuades me I am wrong, I change my mind.
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn’t deliver the goods.
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Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.
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I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.
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