The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already... but to do those things which at present are not done at all.

— John Maynard Keynes

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already... but to do those things which at present are not done at all." in the context of "" 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.