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How Keynes made the world a better place
Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Dec. 3, 2011
At its heart, macroeconomics is all about identifying interdependencies in an economy: correctly identify the variables and their relationship to each other, and governments can use them as so many levers to lift people out of poverty and jump-start ailing economies… while Grand Pursuit is a story with many geniuses, there is one genius who towers over them all: Keynes… [However,] at a time when most economists are calling for more stimulus spending and regulation, we instead have governments, our own included, talking up belt-tightening and laissezfaire capitalism.
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