----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- [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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]