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Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilisation. - John Maynard Keynes
" "Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilisation.
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About John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies.
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John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes
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It is not a correct deduction from the Principles of Economics that enlightened self-interest always operates in the public interest. Nor is it true that self-interest generally is enlightened; more often individuals acting separately to promote their own ends are too ignorant or too weak to attain even these.
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