Keynesianism

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/22/2021
  

  Why Are Moderate Dems Trying to Blow Up Biden's Economic Plan?

  by Zachary D. Carter

  Centrists' efforts to chisel away at the Build Back Better bill threaten its passage, its effectiveness, and the prospects of Democrats to hold power in the future. A biographer of John Maynard Keynes wonders why they're doing it. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/11/2021
  

  The Coronavirus Killed the Gospel of Small Government

  by Zachary D. Carter

  Revisiting the work of Keynes highlights the fact that struggles to deal with the pandemic are not only public health failures but economic failures — an inability to marshal resources to solve a problem. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  9/21/2020
  

  The Libertarian Ideas That Wrecked the Fed

  by Bruce Bartlett

  Friedman’s ardent libertarian faith was central to his monetarist thinking; like all libertarians, he was always extremely wary of anything that would cause the size of government to grow.