John Maynard Keynes Quote

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again.


A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), Ch. 3


But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task,...

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task,...

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task,...

But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task,...