When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals... 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 recognized 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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Original Citation

Keynes, John Maynard. "A Treatise on Money, Vol. II: Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren." 1930. Essays in Persuasion. Macmillan and Co., 1931.

Current Citation

Keynes, John Maynard. "A Treatise on Money." The Essential Keynes. Penguin, 2016.