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John Maynard Keynes

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Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.


— John Maynard Keynes


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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


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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.


— John Maynard Keynes


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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.


— John Maynard Keynes


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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.


— John Maynard Keynes


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Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.


— John Maynard Keynes


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Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.


— John Maynard Keynes


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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.


— John Maynard Keynes


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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.


— John Maynard Keynes


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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.


— John Maynard Keynes


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In the 1920s

Keynes had completed his A Treatise on Probability before the war but publiJohn Maynard Keynesd it in 1921. Aside from a few months spent on holidays with family and friends Keynes continued to involve himself with the university over the next two years.

In 1942 Keynes was awarded a hereditary peerage as Baron Keynes of Tilton in the County of Sussex. He advocated the use of fiscal and monetary measures to mitigate the adverse effects of economic recessions and depressions. Keynesian economics provided the theoretical underpinning for economic policies undertaken in response to the crisis by Presidents George W.

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