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Quotation from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
“There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency”
The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter VI: Europe After the Treaty (Harcourt, Brace and Howe (New York, 1920), Project Gutenberg #15776)
Keynes agrees with a saying attributed to Lenin, that debasing money is the surest way to destroy the existing order of society.
Citation: "There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency" — John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter VI: Europe After the Treaty (Harcourt, Brace and Howe (New York, 1920), Project Gutenberg #15776). (id keynes-the-economic-consequences-of-the-peace-q6)
Portrait: Keynes 1933, Unknown photographer, Public domain.
