“We shall never be able to move again, unless we can free our limbs from these paper shackles,” he wrote. And, in 1923, his call became a warning that today’s policymakers would do well to heed: “The absolutists of contract…are the real parents of revolution.”
1918年时，凯恩斯敦促豁免协约国内部因一战而产生的债务。“我们根本无法前进，除非我们的四肢可以从纸镣铐中解放出来，”凯恩斯写道。1923年，他的呼吁变成了警告，当下的决策者们想必会认真留心到：“契约绝对论者……才是真正的革命孕育者。”