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 past the ocean is flat again.
——John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform, 1923, Ch. 3
或者说,The long run is maybe a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we must be all dead, except our offspring. Economists set temselves too easy, to useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is past the ocean is flat again. However, with wrong drugs, hoisting a full sail in such a stormy ocean, we may die faster than before.