Great quote, and it reminded me of when you combined it with another to make the
grilled green cheese and ham or whatever.
'Economists' love to talk about 'scarcity', but cannot seem to understand
scarcity when jobs are scarce, money is scarce, demand is scarce, income is
scarce, when it matters most.
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From: Timework Web
Unemployment develops . . . because people want the moon; -- men
cannot be employed when the object of desire (i.e. money) is something which
cannot be produced and the demand for which cannot be readily choked
off. There is no remedy but to persuade the public that green cheese is
practically the same thing and to have a green cheese factory
(i.e. a central bank) under public control.
-- J.M. Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money,
1936, p. 235
Tom Walker
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