Similarly, Keynes watched in horror as economic policymakers blundered repeatedly in the years following WWI, through the upheavals of the 1920s, and into the Great Depression of the 1930s. In 1925, Keynes criticized the insouciance of those “who sit in the top tier of the machine.”
类似地，凯恩斯惊恐地目睹一战后决策者的一错再错，先是20世纪20年代的剧烈动荡，然后是30年代的大萧条。1925年，凯恩斯批评“居庙堂之高者”的漫不经心。他指出，“他们普遍鲁莽，不顾一切，抱着模糊不清的乐观，心安理得地认为从未有真正严重的问题发生。十有八九，确实没有真正严重的问题发生——只是个人或群体的小不幸。但我们有可能遇到十之一二……”