"The ideas of
economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly
understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any
intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air,
are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. There are not many who are influenced by new
theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants
and politicians and even agitators apply to current events are not likely to be the newest." --- John Maynard Keyes
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Neil Rieck
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada