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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 temp
by RobertoG 10y ago
"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. "
John Maynard Keynes
- Analemma_ 10y agoYou are correct, but when somebody quotes Milton Friedman and says things like "have faith in the free market", you're probably not going to change their mind with a quote from Keynes.
- RodericDay 10y agoThe point is not to change their minds, it's to change the mind of anyone who may happen to read both quotes.
- ruleabidinguser 10y agoWhys that? Is that an offensive thing to say? You seem to think I'm incapable of changing my mind, why? You don't know me, and you think you do. Unbecoming behavior. EDIT: And downvotes, too? I've been insulted, and I don't take kindly too it, yet I deserve to be downvoted? Thats ridiculous.