...expression. The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.* 'The fox knows many...

...breed quite a tribe of fallacy. Here as in other fields one could well say, with Lord Keynes,* that "the difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds". Although such a degree...

...Chftttr Beatty Rettorch Institute, Royal Marutin HotfiioJ, London, S.VTJ " ** The difficulty lir-., not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones . . ." — JM KEYKES, Preface to General Theory, 1936. IN this lecture I shall suggest that lung cancer...

...him is to be successful - a struggle of escape from habitual modes of thought and expression . . . The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.6 could seldom be any...

...Keynes: "The ideas which [I have] expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from 10 Ibid., Preface, p. vii. the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been,...

...expression. The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.40 Now, as we would expect,...

...crucial relevance of complications that do not fit our theoretical preconceptions. As Keynes has put it, "The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds."5 And in later papers,...

...permanent conservation area. King County, Washington, regulates activities in wetlands as well as on steep The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones. John Mayrurd Keynes slopes, along streams, and in floodplains under its "sensitive areas ordinance."...

...Theory could create problems for readers, and in his preface he wrote that for the economists of his day the 'difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones' (Keynes 1936: viii). But obstacles are also placed in the reader's way by Keynes's failure to get clear...

...expression. The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES,...