Here I am back again in the Treasury . . . but with one great difference. In 1918 most people’s only idea was to get back to pre-1914. No one today feels like that about 1939. That will make an enormous difference when we get down to it.” John Maynard Keynes wrote this in 1942. It did make a difference. After the Great Depression and a second world war, people wanted change. They got it. France calls what followed les trentes glorieuses .
约翰•梅纳德•凯恩斯(John Maynard Keynes)在1942年写道,“我又回到了财政部……但有一个很大的区别。1918年,大多数人唯一的想法就是回到1914年之前。今天没有人想回到1939年前。当我们认真去做,这会造成巨大的影响。”这确实产生了影响。在大萧条和第二次世界大战之后,人们想要改变。他们得到了改变。随后那些年,法国称之为“战后30年的光辉岁月”(les trentes glorieuses)。