technology. Keynes’ report of just such an instance, in his 
study of “Shakespeare and the Profit Inflations,” explains that 
since new wealth and bullion fall first to the governing classes, 
they experience a sudden buoyancy and euphoria, a glad 
release from the habitual stress and anxieties that fosters a 
prosperity, which in turn inspires the starving artist in his 
garret to invent new triumphant rhythms and exultant forms of 
painting and poetry. As long as profits leap well ahead of 
wages, the governing class cavorts in a style that inspires the 
greatest conceptions in the bosom of the impecunious artist. 
When, however, profits and wages keep in reasonable touch, 
this abounding joy of the governing class is correspondingly 
diminished, and art then cannot benefit from prosperity.

     Keynes discovered the dynamics of money as a medium. 
The real task of a study of this one medium is identical with