It was the unemployment that was the hardest to bear. The jobless millions were like an embolism in the nation's vital circulation; and while their indisputable existence argued more forcibly than any text that something was wrong with the system, the economists wrung their hands and racked their brains and called upon the spirit of Adam Smith, but could offer neither diagnosis or remedy.


Chapter IX, John Maynard Keynes, p. 240 - The Worldly Philosophers (1953)

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It was the unemployment that was the hardest to bear. The jobless millions were like an embolism in the nation's vital circulation; and while their...

It was the unemployment that was the hardest to bear. The jobless millions were like an embolism in the nation's vital circulation; and while their...

It was the unemployment that was the hardest to bear. The jobless millions were like an embolism in the nation's vital circulation; and while their...

It was the unemployment that was the hardest to bear. The jobless millions were like an embolism in the nation's vital circulation; and while their...