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Can I ask one thing of this thread - please can people open their comments with whether they have read Keyne's main work or at least the synthesis of his work by others.

John Maynard Keynes: The master and the doctor | Editorial 2011

People want to gripe in horror about the amounts of money that he is choosing to spend when it is actually deemed necessary according to Keyne's economic theory.

Huckabee compares his obesity to Obama's spending 2009

Can I ask one thing of this thread - please can people open their comments with whether they have read Keyne's main work or at least the synthesis of his work by others.

John Maynard Keynes: The master and the doctor | Editorial 2011

Obama sounds good, so did Victo Paz Estenssoro (who was a liberal) yet Sachs convinced him to turn 180 degrees and become an economic dictator using neo-liberal policies as Sachs talked about Keyne's warning of economic collapse and to protect from fascism to institute changes that are in effect just as or nearly so as fascist.

The End of Prosperity 2008

Some of McCain's shifts have been flip-flops, i.e. changing your claimed position out of a sense of political expediency, but most - things like drilling - have reflected Keyne's aphorism that when the facts change, what can one do but change one's mind?

Should McCain be asked how his experience in Vietnam qualifies him to be President? Ann Althouse 2008

That started me on a second education in economics, supplementing the Walrasian theory and Neyman-Pearson statistics I had learned earlier from Henry Schultz (and from Jerzy Neyman in Berkeley) with a careful study of Keyne's General Theory (made comprehensible by the mathematical models proposed by Meade, Hicks, and Modigliani), and the novel econometric techniques being introduced by Frisch and investigated by the Cowles staff.

Herbert A. Simon - Autobiography 1992

I wonder how many remember reading Keyne's book on "The Economic Consequences of Peace", written, in 1919?

The World Crisis and the Outlook 1932

Although Keynes's specific policy prescriptions at the time were vague (Perelman 1989) [45], his basic approach was to let business be free to do as it would choose, while creating a macroeconomic climate in which investment would be brisk or, using Keyne's own words - which became famous - creating a Animal spitirts are a particular sort of confidence, "naive optimism"

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

Or to pick up on Keyne's point, we're right in the middle of debauching our currency.

QandO 2009

Although Keynes's specific policy prescriptions at the time were vague (Perelman 1989) [27], his basic approach was to let business be free to do as it would choose, while creating a macroeconomic climate in which investment would be brisk or, using Keyne's own words - which became famous - creating a Animal spitirts are a particular sort of confidence, "naive optimism"

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009