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Letter to Duncan Grant (15 December 1917)

I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.

— John Maynard Keynes

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal." in the context of "Letter to Duncan Grant (15 December 1917)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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John Maynard Keynes

About John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies.