“ The great art to make a nation happy, and what we call flourishing, consists in giving everybody an opportunity of being employed ”
John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936). copy citation
| Author | John Maynard Keynes |
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| Source | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money |
| Topic | opportunity art |
| Date | 1936 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300071h/printall.html |
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“will have the same effect upon a whole nation, and that, for example, the English might be much richer than they are, if they would be as frugal as some of their neighbours. This, I think, is an error.
On the contrary, Mandeville concludes:
The great art to make a nation happy, and what we call flourishing, consists in giving everybody an opportunity of being employed; which to compass, let a Government's first care be to promote as great a variety of Manufacures, Arts and Handicrafts as human wit can invent; and the second to encourage Agriculture and Fishery in all their branches, that the whole Earth may be forccd to exert itself as well as Man.”
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