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Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.Richard DavenportHines
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The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.Richard DavenportHines
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At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.Richard DavenportHines
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Instead of using their vastly increased material and technical resources to build a wonder-city, they built slums; and they thought it right and advisable to build slums because slums, on the test of private enterprise, "paid", whereas the wonder-city would, they thought, have been an act of foolish extravagance, which would, in the imbecile idiom of the financial fashion, have "mortgaged the future"; though how the construction to-day of great and glorious works can impoverish the future, no man can see until his mind is beset by false analogies from an irrelevant accountancy.Richard DavenportHines