케인즈, {General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money} 에서

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But apart from this contemporary mood, 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 influences, 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. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. Not, indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval; for in the field of economic and political philosophy 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. But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

... 경제학자들과 정치철학자들의 생각이 옳던 그르던 그들의 영향력은 일반적으로 생각되는 것보다 훨씬 크다. 세상은 진실로 소수에 의해 지배당하고 있다. 어떤 어떤 지적 영향력으로부터 꽤 자유롭다고 스스로 생각하는 실용적 인간들은 대개는 죽은 경제학자들의 노예들이다. 권위에 미친 사람들은 허공에 떠다니는 허튼 소리를 듣곤 하는데, 그들은 몇 해 전 한물 간 잡문가들로부터 자신의 광기를 발견한다 ...

John Maynard Keynes quotes (1883-1946), {General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money}


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