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Kapitalismen
“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.» John Maynard Keynes
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«Fear the Boom and Bust» a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem
“The ideas of economist and political philosophers both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men that believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slave of some defunct economist.» J.M. Keynes,…
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Impersonal economists
“Economists are not interested in people, they are very impersonal. I cannot imagine having a bosom friend who is an economist.» Proffesor Robert Skidelsky (1939-), Keynes-biograf i intervju med Financial Times 29 august 2009
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Globalisering
«We are suffering just now from a bad attack of economic pessimism. It is common to hear people say that the epoch of enormous economic progress which characterised the nineteenth century is over.»…. «I believe that this is a wildly mistaken interpretation of what is happening to us. We are suffering, not from the rheumatics of…
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Escaping old ideas
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.» John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)