by John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
The love of money as a possession—
Language: English
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.
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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- Also set in English, [adaptation] ; composed by Frederic Rzewski.
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