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Quotes from A Tract on Monetary Reform — John Maynard Keynes

1883–1946 England

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The State is a sovereign body of which the purpose is to promote the greatest good of the whole.

A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again.

A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)

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