Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize - not, I suppose, at once but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man was that age which came to an end in August 1914. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is preferable to regard labour, including, of course, the personal services of the entrepreneur, and his assistants, as the sole factor… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914! — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are extremely easy… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I think that Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
In a regime of Free Trade and free economic intercourse it would be of little consequence that iron lay on one side… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . .… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It has been pointed out already that no knowledge of probabilities, less in degree than certainty, helps us to know what conclusions are true,… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Everything is always decided for reasons other than the real merits of the case — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to make mistakes so long as you're found out quickly. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Of the maxims of orthodox finance none, surely, is more anti-social than the fetish of liquidity, the doctrine of that it is a positive… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I conceive, therefore, that a somewhat comprehensive socialisation of investment will prove the means of securing an approximation to full employment. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
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