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

Dennis Holme Robertson

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

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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