It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.
Interpretation
It is preferable for a person to exercise control over their finances rather than to oppress others.
John Maynard Keynes emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility in finance rather than exerting power and control over other people. In essence, he advocates for individuals to focus on managing their own economic resources rather than using their status or wealth to dominate or intimidate others in society.
In practice
During a discussion about financial ethics, one might quote Keynes to highlight the importance of self-discipline in wealth management.
As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which one thinks one knows something about and in the management of which one thoroughly believes.
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.
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
We will not have any more crashes in our time.
This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45 [Hayek provided historical background up to page 45; after that came his theoretical model], and yet it remains a book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in bedlam.
When you bring in multi-brand retail items into the country, you're not just bringing the products, but you're also harming local manufacturers.
Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.
When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and financial stability are usually the issues. Is it moral for rich countries to use such a high proportion of the world's resources or for investment bankers to earn large bonuses?
In the 1930s, unemployed working people could anticipate that their jobs would come back.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way.
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