Showing posts with label Keynes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Keynes. Show all posts

Friday, January 20, 2012

20/1/2012: A Question for Keynesianistas

Keynes remarked that:


"The theory of economics does not furnish a body of settled conclusions immediately applicable to policy. It is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique for thinking, which helps the possessor to draw correct conclusions."


Sounds plausible. 


A question to Keinesianistas, then: Why on earth would you argue that for every recession in every country, there is only one solution that is fully anchored in one Aggregate Demand identity? And that - irrespective of the nature of the path an economy takes into a recession or its underlying causes, irrespective of the economic conditions at the onset of the recession?