The love of money as a possession—
as distinguished from the love of money
as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—
will be recognised for what it is,
a somewhat disgusting morbidity,
one of those semi-criminal,
semi-pathological propensities
which one hands over with a shudder
to the specialists in mental disease.

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Notes: Excerpt from the essay "Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren." Text is a prose selection. Line breaks have been added arbitrarily.

Confirmed with Essays in Persuasion, London: Macmillan, 1931.

Text Authorship:

• by John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), no title, written 1928-1930, London, Macmillan, first published 1931 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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