Here I am back again in the Treasury . . . but with one great difference. In 1918 most people’s only idea was to get back to pre-1914. No one today feels like that about 1939. That will make an enormous difference when we get down to it.” John Maynard Keynes wrote this in 1942. It did make a difference. After the Great Depression and a second world war, people wanted change. They got it. France calls what followed les trentes glorieuses .
約翰•梅納德•凱恩斯(John Maynard Keynes)在1942年寫道,「我又回到了財政部……但有一個很大的區別。1918年,大多數人唯一的想法就是回到1914年之前。今天沒有人想回到1939年前。當我們認真去做,這會造成巨大的影響。」這確實產生了影響。在經濟大蕭條和第二次世界大戰之後,人們想要改變。他們得到了改變。隨後那些年,法國稱之爲「戰後30年的光輝歲月」(les trentes glorieuses)。