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John Maynard Keynes

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The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.


— John Maynard Keynes


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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.


— John Maynard Keynes


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I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.


— John Maynard Keynes


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In the long run we are all dead.


— John Maynard Keynes


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Ideas shape the course of history.


— John Maynard Keynes


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By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.


— John Maynard Keynes


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If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.


— John Maynard Keynes


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Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.


— John Maynard Keynes


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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.


— 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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