Economists and Predicting Past Trends
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John Maynard Keynes
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The 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 will be
flat
.
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