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The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe

Book by John Maynard Keynes · 5 quotes · Century, Courses, Government

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The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe Quotes

“If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.”

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“The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.”

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“...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract,... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century.”

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