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When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

John Maynard Keynes
Country, Jobs, Done
1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.

Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done.

John Maynard Keynes
Country, Jobs, Serious
1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.

The time has already come when each country needs a considered national policy about what size of population, whether larger or smaller than at present or the same, is most expedient. And having settled this policy, we must take steps to carry it into operation. The time may arrive a little later when the community as a whole must pay attention to the innate quality as well as to the mere numbers of its future members.

John Maynard Keynes
Country, Numbers, Eugenics
John Maynard Keynes (1971). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes”

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

John Maynard Keynes
Country, Gold, Investing
John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth -- he could at the same time and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprise of any quarter of the world -- he could secure forthwith, if he wished, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate without passport or other formality.

John Maynard Keynes
Country, Morning, Peace

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