Where Keynes went wrong : and why world governments keep creating inflation, bubbles, and busts / Hunter Lewis.
By: Lewis, Hunter [author]
Publisher: Mount Jackson, VA. : Axios Press, [2009]Copyright date: c2009Description: vi, 384 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781604190175Subject(s): Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946 | Keynesian economics | Economic policy | Monetary policy | Financial crisesDDC classification: 330.156 LOC classification: HB99.7 | .L49 2009Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-372) and index.
Commonsense economics -- Drive interest rates down -- Spend more, save less, and grow wealthy -- The immoralist (a digression) -- What to do about Wall Street? -- Look to the state for economic leadership -- In an economic crisis, print, lend, borrow, and spend -- "Rive down interest rates" (and reap a whirlwind of inflation, bubbles, and busts) -- Spend more, save less, and grow poorer -- What (not) to do about Wall Street -- (do not) look to the state for economic leadership -- Government for sale (a digression) -- In an economic crisis, printing, lending, borrowing, and spending just sow the seeds of the next crisis -- Markets do not self-correct -- Yes, no, and again yes to economic globalization -- How Keynesian was Keynes? -- Keynes the speaker -- Keynes the writer -- Upside-down economics : what Keynes would like you to believe -- What is really wrong here : the central paradox of Keynesianism -- Saying goodbye to Keynes.
Presents an overview of the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes and offers a critique of the Keynesian economic strategy of borrowing and spending which has been used by the current Obama administration to deal with the fiscal crisis of 2009.
300-399
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