One of John Maynard Keynes’s best-known quotes is also the most misused. His “in the long run we are all dead” quip has been interpreted as a call to focus policy efforts on correcting short-term swings in economic activity. This is perhaps manifested in James Carville’s slogan for Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign: “It’s the economy, stupid.” That voter prosperity today outweighs future economic considerations is indeed a flaw of liberal democracies everywhere.
約翰•梅納德•凱恩斯(John Maynard Keynes)最著名的名言之一也是被最常濫用的。他的俏皮話「從長遠來看,我們都死了」被有些人解讀爲呼籲將政策努力聚焦於糾正經濟活動的短期波動。這或許反映於詹姆士•卡維爾(James Carville)爲比爾•柯林頓(Bill Clinton) 1992年競選構思的口號:「關鍵在於經濟,笨蛋。」當今選民的富裕壓倒未來的經濟考慮,這的確是世界各地自由民主國家的一個缺陷。