John Maynard
John Maynard
decay world may
It is Enterprise which build and improves the world's possessions...If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
struggle class want
The Economic Problem...the problem of want and poverty and the economic struggle between classes and nations, is nothing but a frightful muddle, a transitory and unnecessary muddle.
quality mud faults
How can I adopt a creed which, preferring the mud to the fish, exalts the boorish proletariat above the bourgeois and the intelligentsia who, with whatever faults, are the quality in life and surely carry the seeds of all human advancement?
mets train
God has arrived. I met him on the 5:15 train.
ideas encroachment interest
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas.
zero supposing-that may
If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital is zero, this may be the most sensible way of gradually getting rid of many of the objectionable features of capitalism.
expectations matter would-be
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
powerful jealous office
The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
psychics physics breaking-down
The atomic hypothesis which had worked so splendidly in Physics breaks down in Psychics.
employment logic lyrical
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged
children ordinary three
Adam Smith and Malthus and Ricardo ! There is something about these three figures to evoke more than ordinary sentiments from us their children in the spirit.
party past ideas
All the political parties alike have their origins in past ideas and not in new ideas and none more conspicuously so than the Marxists .
war earthquakes pyramids
Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.
men long suffering
Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.