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John Maynard Keynes
said
The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind.
— Chapter I, p. 3
John Maynard Keynes
British economist (1883–1946)
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Lived 1883–1946, aged 63United Kingdom
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He argued that mass unemployment wasn't a self-correcting market glitch but proof that governments needed to spend their way out of slumps — a thought so heretical in the 1930s and so dominant by the 1960s that his name became the economic doctrine of the postwar West.
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John Maynard Keynes graduated from Cambridge in 1904 with a mathematics degree, then built his career dismantling the orthodoxy that free markets automatically deliver full employment. During the Great Depression he published The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money in early 1936, insisting that total spending — not wage flexibility — determined employment levels, and that downturns required deliberate fiscal and monetary intervention. By the late 1930s Western governments were adopting his prescriptions; by two decades after his death in 1946, nearly all capitalist states had foll…
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John Maynard Keynes
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The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
— Chapter II, Section I, p. 15
John Maynard Keynes
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The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.
— Chapter II, Section III, p. 20
John Maynard Keynes
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In writing thus I do not necessarily disparage the practices of that generation. In the unconscious recesses of its being Society knew what it was about.
— Chapter II, Section III, p. 21
John Maynard Keynes
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He had one illusion — France; and one disillusion — mankind, including Frenchmen, and his colleagues not least.
— On Georges Clemenceau, in Chapter III, p. 32
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