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A Defense of Keynes: Well, Not Really


Of all of the articles I have written, this one has pained me the most to write. In it, I will have to site and at times defend John Maynard Keynes, not his “General Theory”, but another paper he wrote in 1930 titled, “Economic Prospect of our Grandchildren“. If you haven’t read it, please read…

April 8, 2018 in Cronyism, Economics, History, Inflation, Intervention, Issues, Middle-Class, Politics.

Creative Destruction, Technological Unemployment and Choice


Creative destruction has become again, a popular term to explain the dislocation of workers in western labor markets. Although first coined by Karl Marx to describe how capitalism would be destroyed by the bourgeois, Joseph Schumpeter (1883-1950), an Austrian economist, (not part of the Mengarian Austrian Economic School) modified the meaning to be understood as the…

August 2, 2014 in Economics, Intervention, Issues.

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