The End of Laissez-Faire

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Did Keynes Save Capitalism? (Open College podcast)

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Or was he opposed to capitalism on principle? My 32-minute podcast discussion. Available at various listening sources: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/opencollege… Bitchute http://www.bitchute.com/opencollegepo… Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/o… SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepod… Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/poss… Google Play https://play.google.com/music/m/Iuram… Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2qgnmMD…

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Can We Blame Keynes for Keynesianism? [Good Life series]

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In our era of Keynesian economics on steroids, we should ask: How close is current Keyesnian practice to original Keynesian theory? John Maynard Keynes‘s main claim to fame is his advocacy of deficit spending as a tool of economic recovery. In a depressed economy, the argument runs, the government should spend money it doesn’t have.

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Keynes’s “The End of Laissez-Faire” (text)

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[Below is the text. Here also is a PDF version.] John Maynard Keynes, The End of Laissez-Faire (1926) The disposition towards public affairs, which we conveniently sum up as individualism and laissez-faire, drew its sustenance from many different rivulets of thought and springs of feeling. For more than a hundred years our philosophers ruled us

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