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, … - John Maynard Keynes

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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.

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About John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies.

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Alternative Names: Lord Keynes Baron Keynes of Tilton John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes Keynes
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In the long run, we are all dead!

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.

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