By
Monty Pelerin, posted March 7th, 2010 http://www.economicnoise.com/2010/03/07/keynesian-economics-explained/
Mark W. Hendrickson wrote a piece on Keynesian Economics in American Thinker
today. It is an excellent read for fans or opponents of Keynes. Even
better for those who want to learn, or refresh, some economics.
In the piece he discusses the following four topics:
- 1) Thralldom to the Keynesian macro-economic paradigm.
- 2) Blindness to history.
- 3) An enormous faith in government competence.
- 4) Dangerous assumptions about the capital markets.
Hendrickson concludes with the following:
“Stimulus plans haven’t worked, won’t work, and we can’t
afford them. We are already in great economic danger from deficit
spending. A policy to plunge us even deeper into the debt abyss is
kamikaze economics.”