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The value of a yellow metal, originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.

Dennis Holme Robertson

Islands of conscious power in this ocean of unconscious co-operation like lumps of butter coagulating in a pail of buttermilk.

Dennis Holme Robertson

Looking back the great American 'stabilization' [and boom] of 1922-1929 was really a vast attempt to destabilize the value of money in terms of human effort by means of a colossal program of investment [driven by too easy credit]... which succeeded for a surprisingly long period, but which no human ingenuity could have managed to direct indefinitely on sound and balanced lines.

Dennis Holme Robertson

Dennis Holme Robertson

Dennis Holme Robertson

Born: May 23, 1890

Died: April 21, 1963 (aged 72)

Bio: Sir Dennis Holme Robertson was an English economist who taught at Cambridge and London Universities.

Known for:

A study of industrial fluctuation (1915)
Britain in the world economy (1954)
A Survey of Modern Monetary Controversy
Utility and All That, and Other Essays (1952)

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