In 1945, he wrote to T.S. Eliot: “[T]he full employment policy by means of investment is only one particular application of an intellectual theorem. You can produce the result just as well by consuming more or working less.
凯恩斯对此持不同看法。1945年，他在致艾略特（T. S. Eliot）的信中写到：“以投资作为手段实现充分就业的政策只是理论定理的一项具体应用。只要消费更多或工作更少，也可以产生同样的效果。就个人而言，我认为投资就好比是急救……而减少工作则是最后手段。”