#Keynes

Mr Demos of Pnyx

gem_ste

In trying to work out in my own head what’s to be done, I’ve been reading Keynes two essays ‘How To Pay For The War’ and ‘The Means To Prosperity’.

The Karl Polanyi Project

theKarlPolanyi

Reading @zachdcarter’s excellent biography of Keynes there’s a fantastic parallel to be drawn between him and Polanyi Both men witnessed the unraveling of laissez-faire in 1929 and deduced that capitalism

Zachary D. Carter

zachdcarter

Larry, let's talk.https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1319317535435665409 It is a mistake to think of The General Theory as a set of policy prescriptions. There are some in there, of course. Among other things, Keynes

Michael Nielsen

michael_nielsen

"Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians...the last great mind which looked out on the visible and intellectual world with

Blogger Me

BloggerMe3

Let's get one thing straight, right now, OK? #JohnMaynardKeynes was not a #socialist. He was a conservative economist called upon to develop govt policy during the Great WWI 1917 &

Kerry

kerry62189

I keep seeing the assertion that Keynes coined the term "animal spirits" in 1936 to talk about investors. This was an *extremely* common term during the 19c, meaning something like

Matt Stoller

matthewstoller

Even when Larry Summers tries to pander and repudiate his old views so he can be appointed to the Fed without too much controversy he can’t help but reveal his

Skanda Amarnath ( Neoliberal Sellout )

IrvingSwisher

1/ Long overdue but some thoughts on @zachdcarter's excellent book The Price of Peace. I hope I can add to this thread over the weekend. From the jump, the role

David Gerard 🐍👑 🌷

davidgerard

Finance thread!i keep being taken for a raving SJW commie when i talk liberalism 101.so let's liberal liberally for a bit. 1/10 the one trend that stands out for me

James Kimbell

realmrkimbell

Here’s a thread about (lol) politics and (super lol) game theory. Forgive me. In a 1936 book with a title too long for a tweet, John Maynard Keynes wrote about

Isaah Mhlanga

IsaahMhlanga

The President brought John Maynard Keynes to South Africa. There is just no way for the President to announce a stimulus package and then let everybody go out and enjoy

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Keynes's 1940 pamphlet "How to Pay For the War" reframed the question of large-scale project financing. Rather than focusing on money (which governments can print at will), it focused on

UoD Life Sciences

UoDLifeSciences

"On Saturday morning the laboratory of Professor Angus Lamond, in the School of Life Sciences, handed over two highly specialised Thermo KingFisher Flex robots to the Royal Navy, for urgent

David Glasner

david_glasner

(Thread) Here's an outline of an unwritten paper developing some ideas from my paper “Hayek Hicks Radner and Four Equilibrium Concepts" and some from previous blog posts, in particular Phillips

Brendan Haley

br_haley

1938 - Keynes advised Pres. Roosevelt to prioritize working class housing because of the “large and continuing scale of potential demand; wide geographical distribution of this demand; and because the

Sam🔔

sam_a_bell

Marriner Eccles memoir (thx to @KalebNygaard) 1/x on his conversion into an activist for government intervention 2/x "The honeymoon ended and the wrangling began soon after this cycle was checked