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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe 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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Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget.
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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.
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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.
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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
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The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems – the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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Whenever you save five shillings you put a man out of work for a day.
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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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In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.
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It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you’re found out quickly.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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We will not have any more crashes in our time.
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Ideas, knowledge, art, hospitality, travel – these are things which should in their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and above all let finance be primarily national.
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