The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNESThe ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.
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It is investment, i.e. the increased production of material wealth in the shape of capital goods, which alone increases national wealth.
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Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.
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The 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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The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done.
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There is no intrinsic reason for the scarcity of capital.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true, and that there is no direct relation between the truth of a proposition and its probability. Probability begins and ends with probability.
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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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The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
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The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the war, could never have come about in a Society where wealth was divided equitably.
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