CHAPTER EIGHTEENEpilogue: The economist as adviser
But, chiefly, do not let us overestimate the importance of the economic problem, or sacrifice to its supposed necessities other matters of greater and more permanent significance. It should be a matter for specialists-like dentistry. If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people, on a level with dentists, that would be splendid!
John Maynard Keynes1
Die Kunstfehler von Ärzten können das Leben einzelner Menschen beenden. Die Kunstfehler von Nationalökonomen können Katastrophen für ganze Völker zur Folge haben.
Hans Willgerodt2
Keynes’s famous final lines of his essay Economic Possibilities of Our Grandchildren
must be complemented ...
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