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A colleague of mine has asked whether I know about the source of either of 
these quotes, one alleged to be from Hayek and the other from Keynes. Does 
anyone recognise them? 
 
> 
I think that the quote attributed to Hayek ran along these lines: "Only the 
meanest type of economist is primarily concerned with money." 
 
As a bonus question, there's one attributed to Keynes that I've been trying 
to find as well.  Again, a guess: "I am less interested in the size of a 
man's/Einstein's brain than in the fact that similar brains are [?] in 
sweatshops and [?]" 
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Roger Backhouse 
University of Birmingham 
 
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