Tag Archives: John Maynard Keynes

A Flaw in the Model

Posted on November 2, 2017 by camelotkidd

The election of Donald Trump was due, in no small part, to the abject corruption of our elite. In my last post, I examined An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law, where 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner states that the poor require … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Alan Greenspan, An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law, animal spirits, Ayn Rand, banana republic, Democrats, Education/Industrial/Complex, flaw in the model, John Maynard Keynes, looting, magical belief system, military industrial complex, mortgage-securitization process, Naked Capitalism, neoliberalism, neoliberals, not a bug but a feature, Republicans, Richard Posner, student-loan-securitization process, Yves Smith | Leave a comment

Collaborators

Posted on February 2, 2016 by camelotkidd

The Great Depression so discredited capitalism that it created space for the New Deal reforms implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Many of these policies, influenced by economist John Maynard Keynes, involved massive government intervention in the economic affairs of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bill Clinton, Civil Right Act, Corey Robin, FDR, George Wallace, Hillary Clinton, John Maynard Keynes, Michael Kalecki, neo-liberal, New Deal, Politcal Aspects of Full Employment, Powell memo, President Obama, Public-Private Partnerships, Richard Nixon, Rick Perlstein, southern strategy, triangulation, Voting Rights Act, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Wedgie

Posted on July 30, 2015 by camelotkidd

To accomplish their economic agenda conservatives have historically used race, crime, abortion, and gay marriage as divisive wedge issues. It’s the same today. Indeed, government at every level is under attack by the forces of organized wealth and their political enablers who … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged abortion, conservatives, divide and rule, FDR, gay marriage, John Maynard Keynes, Mark Ames, Michael Kalecki, New Deal, New Right, Nixonland, Politcal Aspects of Full Employment, race, Rick Perlstein, secular humanism, spite, wedge politics | Leave a comment

It’s all about the rents

Posted on April 15, 2013 by camelotkidd

John Maynard Keynes was famous for his acerbic quote: Euthanize the rentiers. How did we come to worship the rentiers in our economy instead? I’ve been nattering on about the scourge of rentiers since CK’s inception, and how classical political … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged David Cay Johnston, FIRE sector, John Maynard Keynes, Joseph Stiglitz, Michael LInd, rentier | Leave a comment

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