{"id":18249,"date":"2026-06-16T20:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=18249"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:41:06","slug":"keynes-for-our-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/keynes-for-our-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynes for our times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Robert Skidelsky<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artificial intelligence has a penchant for pronouncements that are clear, confident\u2026and often wrong. More than a passing technical flaw, this speaks to the difficulty we all\u2014including AI\u2019s human architects\u2014face in dealing with uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Maynard Keynes, in contrast, understood that the future is essentially unknowable, and it is&nbsp;\u201cbetter to be vaguely right than precisely wrong.\u201d This insight remade economics in the 20th century, and it is but one of his ideas that are even more relevant in our own extremely uncertain times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: International Monetary Fund<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/publications\/fandd\/issues\/2026\/06\/keynes-for-our-times-robert-skidelsky\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Skidelsky Artificial intelligence has a penchant for pronouncements that are clear, confident\u2026and often wrong. More than a passing technical flaw, this speaks to the difficulty we all\u2014including AI\u2019s human architects\u2014face in dealing with uncertainty. John Maynard Keynes, in contrast, understood that the future is essentially unknowable, and it is&nbsp;\u201cbetter to be vaguely right than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,35,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-19","category-35","category-proposals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18250,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18249\/revisions\/18250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}