I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject from economic thinking twenty years ago.
John Maynard KeynesThe numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.
John Maynard KeynesI expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis of the general social advantage, taking an ever greater responsibility for directly organizing investments.
John Maynard KeynesIt's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.
John Maynard KeynesNothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.
John Maynard Keynes