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"since the new deal and Keynesianism failed to end the great depression" That's patently and demonstrably not true. Government spending during WW2 put people to work, put money in their pockets, stimulated private spending and investment, created demand for more products, created the middle...
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I've been trying to read Krugman's book (I find it heavy on rhetoric and short on logic) and have been thinking about his babysitter analogy. I see RockyRacoon's point about the price-fixing. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me there are other problems as well. In this analogy, the money...