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The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.

John Maynard Keynes
Powerful, Freedom, Ideas
General Theory of Employment (1936; 1947 ed.) ch. 24
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is generally understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.