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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
John Maynard Keynes
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John Maynard Keynes
Age: 62 †
Born: 1883
Born: June 5
Died: 1946
Died: April 21
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Lord Keynes
Baron Keynes of Tilton
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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.
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The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.
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Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
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