John Maynard
John Maynard
land may scarcity
But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
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.
cake growth saving
The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
rewards penalties obstinacy
Obstinacy can bring only a penalty and no reward.
running exhausted force
The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
europe vengeance dare
If we aim deliberately at the impoverishment of Central Europe, vengeance, I dare predict, will not limp.
order doe study
The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order.
employment logic lyrical
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged
ideas sound behinds
The idea behind stamped money is sound.
work-out world lines
The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke the lines for not keeping straight as the only remedy for the unfortunate collisions which are occurring. Yet, in truth, there is no remedy except to throw over the axiom of parallels and to work out a non-Euclidean geometry.
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 .
men long suffering
Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.
might lasts would-be
Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
newton type aloof
Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women.