...The noted economist, John Maynard Keynes, comparing economic systems in The Power of Ideas, said : "It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil." This is, indeed, the truth. Ideas give birth to plans of action, to political and social programs,...

...warning as to the "encroachment of ideas ; not, indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval, ... so that the ideas which civil servants and politicians...to current events are not likely to be the newest" [14, pp. 383-в4]. May not the General Theory now be in danger of becoming the material from which...

...warning as to the "encroachment of ideas; not. indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval. ... so that the ideas which civil servants and politicians...agitators apply to current events are not likely to he the newest" [14. - i-S4]. May not the General Theory 7io\v be in danger of becoming the nutf-rial...

...voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. . . . Soon or late, it is ideas not vested interests which are dangerous for good or evil. 2 1. Jiirgen Habermas, Knowledge and Human Interests, trans. Jeremy J. Shapiro (Boston: Beacon, 1971),...

...philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants...vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.2' The cultural mutation inspired by the sense of danger is the awareness that underdevelopment...

...are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of age, so the ideas which civil servants and politicians and...vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil. (GT, 383-84) This closing passage sounds rather uncontroversial. Keynes offers an inertia! theory of...

...philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants...newest. But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested intersts, which are dangerous for good or evil. The General Theory of Employment, interest and Money...

...philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants...to current events are not likely to be the newest," Keynes, JM The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money (London, Macmillan, 1936), 383^. 49...

...philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants...agitators apply to current events are not likely to he the newest. But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or...

...are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. . . . Sooner or later, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil." 3 We have seen proof throughout our story that ideas do have consequences—but not in the inexorable,...