; w! Y9 y/ p- I0 T8 q*凱恩斯這段話來自其一九二三年發表的〈貨幣改革短論〉(A Tract on Monetary Reform),整段話是︰「This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy,too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.」試譯如下:「看得太遠,對當前事務有誤導作用。長期而言,大家都一命嗚呼。經濟學家為自己定下太容易達致的工作目標,這便如在狂風驟雨中經濟學家老說風暴過後天氣會再晴朗。」凱恩斯重複longrun兩字,頗有幽默的況味,本該照譯,才能顯其妙趣,但中文讀起來有點不自然,遂改之如上。經濟學家和財經事務評論員應細味這段話。