John Maynard Keynes

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John Maynard Keynes

I managed King's College's endowment from bed each morning before breakfast. I helped design the post-war monetary order at Bretton Woods and wrote the General Theory between bouts of illness. When the facts change, I change my mind.

John Maynard Keynes

·1946·London, England

The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems — the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and religion.

John Maynard Keynes

·1930·Cambridge, England

The love of money as a possession — as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life — will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.