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Card V-5: JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES – There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

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There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES · ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PEACE · 1919

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Source

“The Economic Consequences of the Peace”, 1919, ch. VI

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About the author

British economist (1883–1946). Founder of Keynesian economics. His ideas shaped modern macroeconomic policy — and remain the intellectual counterpoint to sound money thinking.

The question on the back

How quickly would you notice something being taken from you bit by bit?