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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Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and the Peace o...
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Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
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Too large a proportion of recent "mathematical" economics are mere concoctions, as imprecise as the initial assumptions they rest on, which allow the ...
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If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intellige...
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The war has ended with every one owing every one else immense sums of money. Germany owes a large sum to the Allies, the Allies owe a large sum to Gre...
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By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.
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We should not conclude from this that everything depends on waves of irrational psychology. On the contrary, the state of long-term expectation is oft...
