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[Posted on behalf of David Andrews. -- RBE]
The toast came at the end of a speech by Keynes at a dinner on the occasion of his
retirement as editor of the Economic Journal in 1945: "to economists, who are the
trustees, not of civilisation, but of the possibility of civilisation" (quoted in Harrod's
Life, p. 194)
David Andrews
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