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A Brief History of Neoliberalism

by David Harvey · 2 Jan 1995 · 318pp · 85,824 words

in the early 1970s (signed into law by Richard Nixon, a Republican president, who in the process even went so far as to remark that ‘we are all Keynesians now’), governing everything from environmental protection to occupational safety and health, civil rights, and consumer protection.12 But the left failed to go much

Financial Market Meltdown: Everything You Need to Know to Understand and Survive the Global Credit Crisis

by Kevin Mellyn · 30 Sep 2009 · 225pp · 11,355 words

and the Vietnam War. U.K. conservatives like Ted Heath were as addicted to spending as Labour Party governments. In 1971, Richard Nixon famously declared: ‘‘We are all Keynesians now.’’ THE LAST NAIL IN GOLD’S COFFIN It was Nixon who dispensed with the last constraints of the old financial order. In 1971

The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking

by Saifedean Ammous · 23 Mar 2018 · 571pp · 106,255 words

to the contrary, and in spite of the entire U.S. establishment, from President Nixon down to “free market economist” Milton Friedman, adopting the refrain, “We're all Keynesians now” as the government took it upon itself to eliminate unemployment with increased inflation, unemployment kept on rising as inflation soared, destroying the theory

Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics

by Nicholas Wapshott · 10 Oct 2011 · 494pp · 132,975 words

it.”1 Although Keynesianism has been declared dead a number of times since the mid-1970s, Friedman’s acknowledgment in 1966 that “in one sense, we are all Keynesians now; in another, nobody is any longer a Keynesian”2 is a more accurate, if teasingly ambiguous, assessment of the state of economics in

Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism

by George A. Akerlof and Robert J. Shiller · 1 Jan 2009 · 471pp · 97,152 words

the thinking of economists and politicians, of academics, and of some of the general public. Even the late Milton Friedman has been quoted as saying “We are all Keynesians now”—although he later disavowed his statement.4 And Keynesian macroeconomic policies have largely worked. Yes, there have been ups and downs. Yes, there

Samuelson Friedman: The Battle Over the Free Market

by Nicholas Wapshott · 2 Aug 2021 · 453pp · 122,586 words

form of prosperity and stability; today’s economists are more concerned about making an already prospering economy grow still further,” before quoting Friedman as saying, “We are all Keynesians now.”13 The suggestion that Friedman, the champion of liberal economics, should concede that Keynesianism had triumphed was news. But, as with so much

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spoken to a Time reporter for the piece, was incensed at being misreported and wrote to the magazine’s editor: You quote me as saying: “We are all Keynesians now.” The quotation is correct, but taken out of context. As best I can recall it, the context was: “In one sense

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, we are all Keynesians now; in another, nobody is any longer a Keynesian.” The second half is at least as important as the first.14 Samuelson wrote a

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the first half of the 20th century, Friedman was the most influential of the second half,” he wrote. “Republican Richard Nixon once pointed out that ‘We are all Keynesians now.’ Equally, any honest Democrat will admit that we are all Friedmanites now. We are because he won so many of his arguments with

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Volcker’s Fed policies, 193–94, 195–96, 200–201, 202–4, 212, 214 Volcker’s skepticism about monetarism, 178–80, 181–85, 189, 235 “We are all Keynesians now,” 75 on the welfare state, 74, 76, 173, 230 at Wisconsin-Madison University, 31 work for New Deal programs, 29–31, 311 writing

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams · 1 Oct 2015 · 357pp · 95,986 words

orchestrated a situation in which neoliberalism became the dominant common sense of our time. Chapter 3 Why Are They Winning? The Making of Neoliberal Hegemony We are all Keynesians now. Milton Friedman If our era is dominated by one hegemonic ideology, it is that of neoliberalism. It is widely assumed that the most

Paper Money Collapse: The Folly of Elastic Money and the Coming Monetary Breakdown

by Detlev S. Schlichter · 21 Sep 2011 · 310pp · 90,817 words

’s trend toward methodological collectivism and macroeconomics just described. Milton Friedman himself clearly perceived their common methodological foundation when he said that “in one sense, we are all Keynesians now; in another, no one is a Keynesian any longer. . . . We all use the Keynesian language and apparatus; none of us any longer accepts

The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society

by Binyamin Appelbaum · 4 Sep 2019 · 614pp · 174,226 words

prosperity into a good life and a great society.” 40. Lyndon B. Johnson, The Vantage Point (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971), 74. 41. “We Are All Keynesians Now,” Time, December 31, 1965. Paul Volcker later told the British journalist Stephen Fay, “It is almost impossible to reconstruct the mood, but there

Arguing With Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future

by Paul Krugman · 28 Jan 2020 · 446pp · 117,660 words

against Keynes began with the doctrine known as monetarism. Monetarists didn’t disagree in principle with the idea that a market economy needs deliberate stabilization. “We are all Keynesians now,” Friedman once said, although he later claimed he was quoted out of context. Monetarists asserted, however, that a very limited, circumscribed form of