...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...from some academic scribbler of a few years back. ' ' 1 More recently, Kuhn has suggested that a mature science is based upon a general agreement on...

...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 all intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. It would not have shocked...

...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 bo quite exempt from any Intellectual influences, arc usually «lares of some defunct economist. Mailmen...

...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...from some academic scribbler of a few years back. . . . Sooner or later, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. MORE...

...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...air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribblers of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated...

...Massachusetts experience derives from imitation or extension of some now forgotten earlier example. 2. "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite...from some academic scribbler of a few years back." John Maynard Keynes, "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money," in The Collected Writings...

...are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are...back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is greatly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. Not, indeed, immediately, but...

...ideas of economists and political philosophers . . . are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical...are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. 2 Cadbury's purchase of the soft-drink giant, Schweppes, solved that problem in 1969, and it began...

...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...influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist (pp. 383-4). Learning Objectives After reading and discussing Keynes' essay student should be able...

...commonly understood," wrote John Maynard Keynes in The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. "Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical...influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist."50 Keynes believed in the power of ideas — good ones and bad ones — to direct our actions...