Tag: John Maynard Keynes
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Clemenceau & His ‘Carthaginian Peace’
John Maynard Keynes did much to create ‘myths’ about the Peace Conference and I suggest the one he wove about Clemenceau contributed heavily to the notion that everything that later went wrong was as the result.
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Pluto’s 21st Century Trek Thru Capricorn Spells an End to 20th Century Economics
In a recent essay, philosopher John Gray suggests that John Maynard Keynes, one of the most influential economists of the 20th Century, would not have supported the ‘simple minded’ view that the only way forward is through government stimulation of the economy to facilitate a return to growth. The problem, Gray notes, isn’t just a…