The consensus, in other words, seemed to be that there would be nothing in the next 20 years as transformative as Alfred Marshall’s synthesis of the 1890’s or the revolution initiated by John Maynard Keynes in the 1930’s. In contrast to the economics of those years, economics today is a mature, well-established discipline.
换句话说，经济学家的共识是，未来二十年不会有像19世纪90年代马歇尔那样的划时代集大成之作或是20世纪30年代凯恩斯的革命性之作。与这两个年代的经济学相反，今天的经济学已是完全成型的成熟学科。与所有成熟学科一样，其进步只能是渐进性的，而不会是革命性的。