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Here is a quote from John Maynard Keynes, writing in 1933: If I had the power today I should surely set out to endow our capital cities with all the appurtenances of art and civilisation on the highest standards of which the citizens of each were individually capable, convinced that what I could create, I could afford – and believing that money thus spent would not only be better than any dole, but would make unnecessary any dole. For with what we have spent on the dole in England since the War we could have made our cities the greatest works of man in the world. econoblog 101John Maynard Keynes: “I could create, I could afford” (Public Service Employment) Dirk Ehnts | Lecturer at Bard College Berlin The quote is from National self-sufficiency (Yale Review, 1933). See the whole of
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Here is a quote from John Maynard Keynes, writing in 1933: If I had the power today I should surely set out to endow our capital cities with all the appurtenances of art and civilisation on the highest standards of which the citizens of each were individually capable, convinced that what I could create, I could afford – and believing that money thus spent would not only be better than any dole, but would make unnecessary any dole. For with what we have spent on the dole in England since the War we could have made our cities the greatest works of man in the world. econoblog 101John Maynard Keynes: “I could create, I could afford” (Public Service Employment) Dirk Ehnts | Lecturer at Bard College Berlin The quote is from National self-sufficiency (Yale Review, 1933). See the whole of
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: affordability, JG, MMT, Public Enterprise, public good, public investment, public service employment, real resources, welfare
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Here is a quote from John Maynard Keynes, writing in 1933:If I had the power today I should surely set out to endow our capital cities with all the appurtenances of art and civilisation on the highest standards of which the citizens of each were individually capable, convinced that what I could create, I could afford – and believing that money thus spent would not only be better than any dole, but would make unnecessary any dole. For with what we have spent on the dole in England since the War we could have made our cities the greatest works of man in the world.
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John Maynard Keynes: “I could create, I could afford” (Public Service Employment)
Dirk Ehnts | Lecturer at Bard College Berlin
John Maynard Keynes: “I could create, I could afford” (Public Service Employment)
Dirk Ehnts | Lecturer at Bard College Berlin
The quote is from National self-sufficiency (Yale Review, 1933). See the whole of Section IV. It's brilliant.