John Maynard Keynes
- Capitalism
is the extraordinary belief that he nastiest of men, for the nastiest
of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
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- The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
- Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
- If
economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble,
competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
John Maynard Keynes, "The Future" Ch. 5, Essays in Persuasion (1931)-
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- The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
John Maynard Keynes, (attributed)-
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- The
long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we
are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if
in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past
the ocean is flat again.
John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) Ch. 3-
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- I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
John Maynard Keynes, The End of Laissez-faire (1926) Ch. 1-
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difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old
ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into
every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (13 December 1935)-
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