He dismissed most of Keynes’s attack on the orthodox economics of his day as unnecessary, writing “had Keynes [started] with the simple statement that he found it realistic to assume that money wages&hellip;were sticky and resistant to downward movements...most of his insights would have remained just as valid.” For Samuelson, Keynes’s real contribution was the tools he gave governments to prevent depressions.
萨缪尔逊被认为是凯恩斯主义者，不过有所保留。他反对大部分当时凯恩斯对正统经济学的攻击，认为这毫无必要。他写道，“如果凯恩斯[一开始]做出一个简单陈述，指出他发现假设货币工资……是刚性的，难以向下调整这一假设是符合现实的，那么他的大部分洞见将仍然是站得住脚的。”对萨缪尔逊来说，凯恩斯的真正贡献是他给予政府的防止萧条的工具。