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The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind. Very few of us realise with conviction the intensely unusual, unstable, complicated, unreliable, temporary nature of the economic organisation by which Western Europe has lived for the last half century.
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Keynes, J.M. (2019). Introductory. In: Cox, M. (eds) The Economic Consequences of the Peace. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04759-7_2
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