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Browsing Quotes By John Maynard Keynes

  • I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution.

    Speaker: John Maynard Keynes
    Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:32 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: capitalism, investing, wall-street, wealth

  • The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.

    Speaker: John Maynard Keynes
    Source: Quoted in: K. Eric Drexler Engines of Creation: the Coming Era of Nanotechnology, Bantam, New York, 1987, p 231. (http://naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html)
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    Posted: 06 Jul 2009 at 8:49 AM
    Posted By: dirid51
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    Tags: ideas
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