"Government machinery has been described as a marvelous……" — John Maynard Keynes
"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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121 Quotes by John Maynard Keynes
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This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set…
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The engine which drives enterprise is not thrift, but profit.
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Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency.…
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[T]he theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily…
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly…
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Chess is a cure for headaches.
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It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
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Unlike physics, for example, such parts of the bare bones of economic theory as are expressible in mathematical form are…
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It economics is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps…
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Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on,…
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