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Been There Done That: The Political Economy of DéJà VuPeter J. BoettkeGeorge Mason University - Department of Economics Daniel J. SmithTroy University - Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy Nicholas A. SnowOhio State University (OSU); George Mason University - Department of Economics August 1, 2010 THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVES ON WHAT WE HAVE LEARNT, pp. 14-45, Steven Kates, ed., Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011 Abstract: In the midst of the current financial crisis the economics profession has seen a monumental resurrection of Keynesian ideas. The debate, which Keynes started back in the 1930s, is being picked up again, not where it left off, but in exactly the same place it started. While Keynesian theories were carefully critiqued by new classical economists and in the most part discarded by the profession, Keynesian models and prescriptions became a staple of politics and macroeconomic textbooks. Obviously, neither side of the debate articulated their views adequately and on the same terms. If the economics profession is going to escape this perpetual déjà vu of cycling through the same debate every time an economic crisis emerges, the profession must discard entrenched ideologies and turn back to the sound but creative application of basic economics.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 32 Keywords: Financial Crisis, Keynesian Economics, Inflation, Housing Bubble, Regime Uncertainty, John Maynard Keynes JEL Classification: A11, B53, N40 Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: December 6, 2010 ; Last revised: February 21, 2012Suggested CitationContact Information
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