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- From: rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Inflation
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.134027.29788@hemlock.cray.com>
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- Date: 6 Jan 93 13:40:27 CST
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- In article <1id49fINNsok@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Wright) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan5.152354.16686@hemlock.cray.com> rja@mahogany126.cray.com (Russ Anderson) writes:
- > |In article <38124@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu|, jfh@beach.cis.ufl.edu (James F. Hranicky) writes:
- >
- > |From "Free to Choose" by Milton & Rose Friedman, p257:
- > |
- > | You can see why John Maynard Keynes, in discussing the inflations after
- > | World War I, wrote: "There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning
- > | the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process
- > | engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction,
- > | and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose."
- > | (John Maynard Keynes, "The Economic Consequences of the Peace",(1920) p 236)
- > |
- > || I personally prefer the Austrian school of Economics as espoused by
- > || von Mises, von Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Murray Rothbard, George Reisman,
- > || etc.
- > |
- > |I don't see how their views differ with Keynes. Could you elaborate?
- >
- > Keynes would later recant his conventional views of economics that
- > appear in his earlier works.
-
- "recant"? Please provide a quote or reference of Keynes recanting his
- earlier works (esp re inflation).
-
- > Worse yet, what has come to be thought of
- > as Keynesianism is a total disregard to inflation and believing in a
- > inflation/unemployment tradeoff: that is, you can get permanent rising
- > output from inflating the money supply and rising prices.
-
- 1) I hope we agree that Keynes did not believe in "a total disregard to
- inflation [... and] permanent rising output from inflating the money
- supply and rising prices."
-
- 2) While there are certainly many distortions of Keynes views (by both
- those that agree and disagree with "Keynesianism"), I hope that in
- this forum we deal with Keynes actual beliefs instead of perpetuating
- the distortions of his beliefs.
-
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