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„Pro lidi není obtížné přijmout nové myšlenky, ale zapomenout na staré.“

John Maynard Keynes

„Odpor k nové myšlence se zvyšuje s její důležitostí.“

John Maynard Keynes

„Ničíme krásu naší krajiny, protože nikým nevlastněná nádhera přírody nemá žádnou ekonomickou hodnotu. Jsme schopní vypnout slunce a hvězdy, protože nevyplácejí dividendy.“

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„…ve všech těchto věcech je stávající stav práva a ortodoxie stále středověký - naprosto mimo kontakt s civilizovaným názorem a civilizovanou praxí.“

John Maynard Keynes

1925 o omezené dostupnosti antikoncepce, nedostatku sexuální výchovy, zákonech o manželství a rozvodu,…
Originál: (en) …in all these matters the existing state of the law and of orthodoxy is still medieval – altogether out of touch with civilised opinion and civilised practices.
Zdroj: [Seven things you may not know about John Maynard Keynes, theguardian.com, 2015-03-05, 2015-10-30, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/05/seven-things-john-maynard-keynes]

„Slova by měla být řečena o něco prudčeji, protože jsou útokem myšlenek na lhostejnost.“

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John Maynard Keynes: Citáty anglicky

“The future life of Europe was not their concern; its means of livelihood was not their anxiety. Their preoccupations, good and bad alike, related to frontiers and nationalities, to the balance of power, to imperial aggrandizements, to the future enfeeblement of a strong and dangerous enemy, to revenge, and to the shifting by the victors of their unbearable financial burdens on to the shoulders of the defeated.”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Zdroj: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter IV, p. 56

“The duty of "saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth of the cake the object of true religion.”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Zdroj: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter II, Section III, p. 20

“You can't push on a string.”

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Attributed by [Hal R., Varian, http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/people/hal/NYTimes/2003-06-04.html, Dealing with Deflation, The New York Times, June 5, 2003, 2007-01-11]
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“This state of affairs is not an inevitable consequence of a decreased capacity to produce wealth. I see no reason why, with good management, real wages need be reduced on the average. It is the consequence of a misguided monetary policy.”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha Essays in Persuasion

Essays in Persuasion (1931), The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill (1925)

“By what modus operandi does credit restriction attain this result? In no other way than by the deliberate intensification of unemployment.”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha Essays in Persuasion

Essays in Persuasion (1931), The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill (1925)

“To see the British Prime Minister watching the company, with six or seven senses not available to ordinary men, judging character, motive, and subconscious impulse, perceiving what each was thinking and even what each was going to say next, and compounding with telepathic instinct the argument or appeal best suited to the vanity, weakness, or self-interest of his immediate auditor, was to realize that the poor President would be playing blind man's bluff in that party.”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha The Economic Consequences of the Peace

On David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson, in Chapter III, p. 41
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)

“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.”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Zdroj: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter II, Section I, p. 15

“If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.”

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Attributed by [Will, Hutton, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/02/economics-economy-john-keynes, Will the real Keynes stand up, not this sad caricature?, Guardian, November 2, 2008, 2009-02-05]
Actual quote: "the Stock Exchange revalues many investments every day and the revaluations give a frequent opportunity to the individual (though not to the community as a whole) to revise his commitments. It is as though a farmer, having tapped his barometer after breakfast, could decide to remove his capital from the farming business between 10 and 11 in the morning and reconsider whether he should return to it later in the week."
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1935), Ch. 12 http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/general-theory/ch12.htm
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“But the dreams of designing diplomats do not always prosper, and we must trust the future.”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Zdroj: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter IV, Section III, p. 105

“Are the solutions offered us always to be too late? Shall we in Great Britain invite three-quarters of the world, including the whole of our Empire, to join with us in evolving a new currency system which shall be stable in terms of commodities? Or would the gold standard countries be interested to learn the terms, which must needs be strict, on which we should be prepared to re-enter the system of a drastically reformed gold standard?”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha Essays in Persuasion

Essays in Persuasion (1931), The End of Gold Standard (1931)

“The mechanism of reaching equilibrium by means of a rising cost of living, which is vainly pursued by a rising level of wages, will be described in the next chapter. But it is admitted on all hands that this is the worst possible solution.”

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Zdroj: How to Pay for the War (1940), Ch. 8 : Rationing Price Control and Wage Control

“For many ages to come the old Adam will be so strong in us that everybody will need to do some work if he is to be contented. We shall do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich to-day, only too glad to have small duties and tasks and routines. But beyond this, we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin on the butter-to make what work there is still to be done to be as widely shared as possible. Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. For three hours a day is quite enough to satisfy the old Adam in most of us!”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha Essays in Persuasion

Essays in Persuasion (1931), Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930)

“Economics is a very dangerous science.”

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Zdroj: Essays In Biography (1933), Robert Malthus: The First of the Cambridge Economists, p. 128

“Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand.”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Zdroj: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter VI, p. 238

“Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha Essays in Persuasion

Essays in Persuasion (1931), Clissold (1927)

“For my part I think that capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable.”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha Essays in Persuasion

Zdroj: Essays in Persuasion (1931), The End of Laissez-faire (1926), Ch. 5

“The great events of history are often due to secular changes in the growth of population and other fundamental economic causes, which, escaping by their gradual character the notice of contemporary observers, are attributed to the follies of statesmen or the fanaticism of atheists.”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Zdroj: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter II, Section I, pp. 14-15

“When, therefore, we enter the realm of State action, everything is to be considered and weighed on its merits. Changes in death duties, income tax, land tenure, licensing, game laws, church establishment, feudal rights, slavery, and so on through all ages, have received the same denunciations from the absolutists of contract, who are the real parents of revolution.”

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A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), Ch. 2 : Public Finance and Changes in the Value of Money

“The study of economics does not seem to require any specialized gifts of an unusually high order. Is it not, intellectually regarded, a very easy subject compared with the higher branches of philosophy and pure science? Yet good, or even competent, economists are the rarest of birds. An easy subject, at which very few excel! The paradox finds its explanation, perhaps, in that the master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher – in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man's nature or his institutions must lie entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near the earth as a politician. Much, but not all, of this many-sidedness Marshall possessed. But chiefly his mixed training and divided nature furnished him with the most essential and fundamental of the economist's necessary gifts – he was conspicuously historian and mathematician, a dealer in the particular and the general, the temporal and the eternal, at the same time.”

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Zdroj: Essays In Biography (1933), Alfred Marshall, p. 170; as cited in: Donald Moggridge (2002), Maynard Keynes: An Economist's Biography, p. 424

“The next move is with the head, and fists must wait.”

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Zdroj: Essays In Biography (1933), Trotsky On England, p. 91

“There is no harm in being sometimes wrong — especially if one is promptly found out.”

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Zdroj: Essays In Biography (1933), Alfred Marshall, p. 175

“The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Zdroj: The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919), Chapter VII, p. 254

“Why should coal miners suffer a lower standard of life than other classes of labour? They may be lazy, good-for-nothing fellows who do not work so hard or so long as they should. But is there any evidence that they are more lazy or more good-for-nothing than other people?
On grounds of social justice, no case can be made out for reducing. the wages of the miners. They are the victims of the economic Juggernaut. They represent in the flesh the "fundamental adjustments" engineered by the Treasury and the Bank of England to satisfy the impatience of the City fathers to bridge the "moderate gap" between $4.40 and $4.86. They (and others to follow) are the "moderate sacrifice" still necessary to ensure the stability of the gold standard. The plight of the coal miners is the first, but not—unless we are very lucky—the last, of the Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill.”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha Essays in Persuasion

Essays in Persuasion (1931), The Economic Consequences of Mr. Churchill (1925)

“Inflation is unjust and Deflation is inexpedient. Of the two perhaps Deflation is, if we rule out exaggerated inflations such as that of Germany, the worse; because it is worse, in an impoverished world, to provoke unemployment than to disappoint the rentier. But it is not necessary that we should weigh one evil against the other. It is easier to agree that both are evils to be shunned.”

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John Maynard Keynes kniha Essays in Persuasion

Essays in Persuasion (1931), Social Consequences of Changes in The Value of Money (1923)

“Communism draws its strength from deeper, more serious sources. Offered to us as a means of improving the economic situation, it is an insult to our intelligence. But offered as a means of making the economic situation worse, that is its subtle, its almost irresistible, attraction. Communism is not a reaction against the failure of the nineteenth century to organize optimal economic output. It is a reaction against its comparative success.”

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“Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Report and A Discussion”, G.B. Shaw, J.M. Keynes et al., London, The New Statesman and Nation, (1934) p. 35

“Shaw and Stalin are still satisfied with Marx’s picture of the capitalist world… They look backwards to what capitalism was, not forward to what it is becoming.”

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“Stalin-Wells Talk: The Verbatim Report and A Discussion”, G.B. Shaw, J.M. Keynes et al., London, The New Statesman and Nation, (1934) p. 34

“My only regret is that I have not drunk more champagne in my life.”

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At a King's College college feast, as quoted in 1949, John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946, Fellow and Bursar, (A memoir prepared by direction of the Council of King’s College, Cambridge University, England), Cambridge University Press, 1949, page 37. This in turn quoted in Quote Investigator, " My Only Regret Is That I Have Not Drunk More Champagne In My Life https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/07/11/more-champagne/", 2013-07-11
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“Being an optimist, I am still hopeful that it may end in the division of Spain geographically into two states. But, above all, I want the war to come to an end and not to extend.”

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Letter to Kingsley Martin on the Spanish Civil War (9 August 1937), quoted in Kingsley Martin, Editor: A Second Volume of Autobiography, 1931–45 (1968), p. 257
1930s