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We are today too near to Maynard Keynes to appraise him dispassionately and to establish with complete detachment just how high he stands in the company of the great. To measure him must be the task of our successors, with the truer perspective that time will give. It must be our task to put on record for them the qualities which, to his own generation and to his pupils, made the mind and personality of Keynes something wholly of its own; to attempt to capture and imprison in words the evanescent elements of his make-up, so that they may picture, as nearly as they can, the man as we knew him.
Written in 1946 and reprinted as written.
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Robinson, E.A.G. (1964). John Maynard Keynes 1883–1946. In: Lekachman, R. (eds) Keynes’ General Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81807-5_2
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