When I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen I find new information I change my mind; What do you do?
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESTo suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThere is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESI conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESFor at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESObstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESEducation: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESIt 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.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESWhen the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESEconomists 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 KEYNESWhen the facts change, I change my mind.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESNothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
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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