Interesting little exchange here. (Roubini is a famously pessimistic economist. Keynes is the Einstein of economics. (I guess Smith would be the Newton?))

Nouriel Roubini (@Nouriel) Tweeted:
RT @AnnPettifor: Keynes (after 2 world wars): “We were not aware that civilisation was a thin and precarious crust erected by the personali… https://twitter.com/AnnPettifor/status/1017738383446216705?s=17

(Full quote follows.)

«Keynes (after 2 world wars): “We were not aware that civilisation was a thin and precarious crust erected by the personality and the will of a very few, and only maintained by rules and conventions skilfully put across and guilefully preserved.”»

And then, somebody else said:

Andy Brown (@VoteAndyBrown) Tweeted:
@AnnPettifor Actually I think Keynes could not be more wrong here. Civilisation is a thin and precarious crust but it is preserved by ordinary people fighting for it and refusing to be conned by people like Donald Trump https://twitter.com/VoteAndyBrown/status/1018082440710164480?s=17