Friday, October 21, 2005

Evening thoughts while sobering up

“THE ideas of economists and political philosophers...are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.” —John Maynard Keynes
(cited by The Economist in their obituary of Arthur Sheldon; October 20th, 2005)

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