"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. In...

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Ideas shape the course of history.
More John Maynard Keynes quotes
"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the old ones.
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"A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.