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Why did Keynesianism win against Austrian economics?
Because it allowed the powerful an excuse to entrench their power and seek rents under the guise of helping the economic and pursuing progressive policies
Keynesianism sometimes works and sometimes fails in the actionable policy objectives that it concocts. It hits the mark often enough to stay on the mix. Austrian economics are a skein of obvious nonsense that even most laypersons can see through before even the first go around.
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>>16349456I'm not an economist, but if Austrian economics is obviously false then why did we see economists who were Austrians? I've never seen a single economist say that tariffs were a good thing (outside of the argument that they're sometimes good for developing economies), so we know that at least everyone can agree that those suck, but I have seen Austrian economists.
>>16349430It never did. The state cant go out of business so theres no incentive to be efficient.
>>16349430Because Keynesianism allows politicians to push artificial prosperity and win elections as consequence
>>16349430>Why did Keynesianism win against Austrian economics?zoom out
>>16349555ALSO TRIPS OF TRUTH @.@
>>16349563>zoom out
See, here's my fundamental confusion. Keynesian economics is the predominant theory today, it's taught in basically ever university and the vast majority of economists are Keynesian. I am admittedly biased, I want Austrian economics to be true because I am highly distrustful of politicians and government, but it is more important than anything that I find the truth and be fair and honest with myself so I can find the actual facts of which economic theory is true and more based on reality. Now from what I know, apparently Keynesian economics has far more models to work with than Austrian economics, and additionally Keynesian economics advocates for far more state intervention in the economy. But this presents a dilemma, because while it's possible that Keynesianism is the predominant theory because it is correct, it is also possible that it is the predominant theory because economists need Keynesianism to justify their jobs (nobody needs an legion of economists telling you to not interfere with the economy after all). So it's a difficult quandary for me to get over, and admittedly one that I am far too undereducated to properly understand.
>>16349430Liberals
>>16349633Keynesianism is big government-friendly economic policy and the Austrian school isn't, so obviously Keynesianism will be pushed by governments despite it's inferiority. the Austrian school will see widespread use after the era of central control schemes wane in popularity, well after our lifetimes
When and in what countries was Austrianism even tried?
>>16349456Name a single thing that Austrian economics advocates that isn't both morally correct and economically correct. I don't give a shit about the praxaelogy mumbo jumo or austistic arguing about mundane details.Literally every recommendation given by Austrians turns out to be correct in spite of some of the goofy shit.If our country went full Austrian, it would be a significantly better place. End of story. Fuck, even Keynes would be spinning in his grave if he saw the crazy hyper-Keynesian shit going on right now.
austrianists are the schizo boomer version of ancapists
>>16349706Austrianism is just free market. Everyone knows that a freer a countries market is, the more prosperous it is relative to itself. Obviously, if you implement a free market in The Congo, it isn't going to magically become more prosperous than Canada, but it will become more prosperous over time.Many of the ills of "Capitalism" are caused by crazy shit like monetary policy and bailouts which are not capitalism.Posting some softies
>>16349582as in the battle is not overkeynesianism is not even a century old. it will not prevail.
>>16349706With the exception of some tariffs, Calvin Coolidge's presidency was fairly economically Austrian-esque. But that's not exactly helpful since people argue about Coolidge and FDR all the time. Coolidge presided over a prosperous and economically industrious time in history...right before the Great Depression, which he is often blamed for. But then FDR came along with his Keynesian-esque policies and presided over the Depression era America, but said Depression continued until America entered the war.So as a result you have this sort of weird argument where everyone can see the same thing but they argue over the causes. Austrians disagree that Coolidge caused the Depression, in fact many of them might say that the Depression was inevitable but was made far worse and prolonged by FDR's policies. Keynesians usually blame Coolidge for the Depression and often say that the Depression would've been far worse than it already was if FDR hadn't greatly increased government spending and control over the economy.
>>16349725Right, my point being is that we’ve never actually tried austrianism because we’ve never actually tried it. Which is ironic, because we’ve actually tried socialism many times but failed.
Because Austrian was worse. Keynes wasn't perfect, and his theories were incomplete (Austrian school likes to screech this is proof he was wrong).Post-Keynesianism is the future.
>>16349725This. Complete free unregulated market is the best. Those hard working jewish financiers must be left unregulated they are smart and know how to handle the economy. Also the evil government should stop regulating the border and let those millions foreign workers come in the free market. And the evil central bank should stop pushing down interest rates, sharklo- I mean jewish banks should be allowed to charge as huge interest rates they want
>>16349760what about hans herman hoppe then?
>>16349713Use Austrian economics to explain Germany's economic miracle recovery before WW2.
>>16349769Wait, hold up, were Hitler's economic policies Keynesian?
>>16349760>jewish financiers must be left unregulatedjews would hate this, they use loopholes and regulations created by governments they control via lobbying to foster an uneven playing field for themselves. in a free market, jews finally have to compete without cheat codes. also, you can point to many more socialist/communist jewish ideologues than libertarian ones
>>16349769>economic miracle recoveryit wasn't though. it was just a debt fueled pump and dump, gearing the economy towards war. it was unsustainable and germany had to go to war, else their economy would've totally collapsed.
>>16349775They weren't Hitler's policies, but rather a man named Schacht, who opposed NSDAP policies and persuaded mustache man to put him in charge. Read up on him, he is universally referred to as a financial wizard. He was far ahead of his time.Soviets wanted him executed in Nuremburg because he was solely responsible to the war machine's growth, and they weren't wrong.
>>16349786>it wasn't thoughIt absolutely was. Germans were jobless and starving beforehand.You are right about unsustainability, but only because Hitler wanted even more rearmanent than their economy could sustain, this is when Schacht resigned in 1937.
>>16349430Because keynsian shills tell the politicians what they want to hear.Hey politician all you need to do is get more power , control more stuff and micromanage more.Meanwhile austrians tell politicians get the fuck out and remove retarded regulations.Obviously politicians choose the big state that allows them to steal and give their friend gov jobs.
>>16349713That faggot wanted Bancor, a unit of account that would be used by a single world Bank to et an individual country interest rates to control current accounts.Keynes would argue we were not totalitarian enough.
>>16349760Sounds good to me. Privatize everyone. If you don't like Mexicans, don't let them on your property. Hint, you also don't have to hire them without nonsense governmental nondiscrimination laws.>>16349769It's pretty easy to recover after having your country destroyed bro. Pretty much everything gets better after a war.Just ending a war makes your economy instantly better.
>>16349820You should read a history book sometime.
>>16349784>they use loopholes and regulations created by governments they control via lobbying to foster an uneven playing field for themselves. in a free market, jews finally have to compete without cheat codesYou disproved your own point. Non-Jews can try to lobby and control the government too, if Jews can lobby and control the government better than everyone that means they won the competition
>>16349507Your entire post is looking at this the wrong way.Economics is a very immature science. It cannot predict many phenomena that we would consider to be fairly basic within its purview, much less control those phenomena. Different "schools" like Keynesian and Austrian, are basically tool boxes. Keynesian tools work sometimes, can explain why they work (sort of), and seem to be able to do some jobs. The tools in the bag marked "Austrian" are quite often wrong, and demonstrably so in many places.>>16349713>morally and economically correctScience isn't here to tell you what is moral or immoral. It's purview is to explain, predict, and control phenomena. You are hooked on ideological reasoning the way that the lotus eater is hooked on opium.
>>16349839Convincing a select few necessary people in the government to do your bidding isnt winning the "competition" of the market us adults are talking about, big brain
So, as I mentioned earlier, the Keynesians have a bunch of models for predicting economic behaviors. How accurate are these models, and are they the reason that Keynesianism is the predominant theory? More importantly, if we've created accurate models to determine economic behaviors and plan around it, then how the hell is economics even a subject of debate at this point? If I can objectively tell someone that the economy is going to go into a recession in 3.4 years and that we should increase government spending 36.4% to alleviate it, then how on God's green Earth is political policy regarding the economy not an open-and-shut case?
>>16349839damn bro, you totally got me. guess the only solution is to just genocide them all or something, right?
>>16349855politics is a competition too and you are losing>>16349862its far more likely you will get genocided by them first
Keynesianism in theory is when you engage in deficit spending at the end of the business cycle to create government jobs to artificially aggregate demand which is supposed to increase jobs in the private sector. Once the economy bounces back you pay off the debt. What happens in actuality is employers don't expand their workforce because they view the demand for products and services as temporary and to them its easier to just pay their workers overtime. The 2 biggest examples of keynsianism is the new deal and Hitlers rebuilding of Germany between 33 and 36.
>>16349737Calvin Coolidge was nothing close to austrian-sequel. He presides over a government with centrally controlled interest rates (the fed)
>>16349430jews
>>16349749Wrong, we have. Andrew Jackson’s president until Lincoln’s was a purely austrian government. That was the pinnacle of American prosperity and life quality, all went downhill from there
>>16349633>Keynesian economics is the predominant theory todayWrong. MMT is the prevailing ideology.
>>16349883Nearly everyone I've talked to about the subject has agreed that Hitler's war economy was economically unsustainable and was going to collapse if they didn't go to war soon, but I've rarely if ever heard this same argument used for Keynesianism (aside from Austrians, whom most people say are crackpots).
>>16349430more like Autism economics lmao
>>16349896Hitler's economy was unsustainable but Schacht's economy (pre 1937) was not. It's why he specifically said 33 to 36.
>>16349858Most models are not particularly accurate in terms of prediction. The science is still trying to explain most phenomena. It is the subject of debate because rhetoricians realize that they can borrow the credibility of whichever group of scientists happen to agree with them and use them to advocate for policy that they think is in their own interests. It's an immature science that's basically being pimped out by every industry shill and ideologue in the game.
>>16349555You basically just described America in present day kek
>>16349555Actually Keynesianism is why the Chairman of the Fed is unelected because he foresaw that very risk and sought to prevent it, and so the Chariman of the Fed is not elected and not subject to things like Congressional oversight.Everything you think is backwards. The Tea Party was the Keynesian nightmare that they convinced you that the status quo was. That was why they wanted "oversight" of the Fed.
>>16349839No they can't, the common denominator is moloch worshipping through multiple generations, they aren't just going to let anyone walk in and buy the government. People do not realize that there are quite a few bloodlines who have been at this for centuries.
>>16349896Hitler alleviated unemployment within 9 months of taking office because 1. He had complete political control of Germany and 2. created massive public works campaigns which drove up huge deficits. This lasted 2 years. Once 1936 came around unemployment in Germany rose to the double digits. In 36 Hitler also visited Mussolini where the Italian facist gave hitler a military display of italy's Navy and armored division. This prompted hitler to start rebuilding German armaments and then another 2 years later ww2 started. It's a common misconception that Hitler rebuilt the German economy through rearmament.
>>16349878You mean the shabbos goys they trick into doing their work? Jews literally cannot do anything on their own.
>>16349949>jews tricked me into doing whatever they want>jews can't do anythingchoose one, goy
>>16349942>Once 1936 came around unemployment in Germany rose to the double digits.Citation needed.
>>16349958I don't have to explain anything. It's all generational subversion.At the end of the day, everything you all are doing is leading to the demise of the jewish people.
>>16349979you are a cattle angry at your master, but you can't do anything about it so you are just left with anger
>>16349964Opps I may be wrong buy i believe unemployment started to go up during 1936
>>16349984I do plenty every day to ensure I never have to comeback here. You all will never be my master.
>>16349984Is that how you jews feel about God? Angry at your master?
>>16349990Everywhere I look points to unemployment continuously decreasing since 1933.
>>16350001Your God is jewish too
Nazi punks fuck off.
>>16350008Im sorry but I do not worship your same strange gods.
>>16350016Lmfao they executed/imprisoned what? Like less than 300 nazi's?How many jews did we kill again?
>>16349786this is incorrect, had Nazi Germany not enacted rearmament they were on course to possess the dominant economy of Europe by the end of the 40s. rearmament and military expansion through conquest were the unsustainable efforts, to the effect that the invasion of the Soviet Union would not have been possible without the fuel and raw materials provided beforehand by German-Soviet trade agreements
>>16350027>How many jews did we kill again?0 lmao. holohoax was fake
>>16350046So you jews admit that you know it was all a hoax?!
>>16350052so you admit you can't defeat jews?
>>16350027>weDo you even know who's pawn you are? Or is that a question that you're willing to march to your death to while having no answers?
>>16350057God is saving his favorite snack for very last.We had you by the balls in ww2, you all had to cry to like 3 separate world super powers to bail you all out and form your illegitimate country.
>>16350068It's like you're talking to a mirror.
>>16350078Your prideful ignorance would have once been a shock but is now a source of humor to me. Try to be a light-hearted about it when your masters sacrifice you for an agenda that you do not fully understand.
>>16350073>We had you by the balls in ww2not even close lmaoJews have all your countries by the balls
>>16350107This is a "no, u" tier answer.
>>16350116except for Jews its actually the truth. Jews own you, and you are the angry cattle seething about it
>>16350105Nigger, what exactly are you going to make me do? Literally, how the fuck you going to make me fight your silly little wars? The jews are dog meat in the future and there's nothing you can do to stop it.
>>16350126If it was true, the (((media))) wouldn't have to try so hard to pump out all of their ridiculous propaganda, approval/sympathy for jewish people is reaching historical lows, people are catching on to your shit and it's just a matter of time.
>>16350127Wait. Do you think I'm your master?
>>16350140Do you think?
>>16350138Its good that the cattle have such fantasies to stay complacent lmao. One day the chosen cattle messiah will appear and save the poor goyim from the evil jews amirite? any day now goy! Now go post some edgy jew memes on /pol/ and larp about that epic future while Jews run your country lmao
>>16350161Yes, they have to do a few more things to make it all official. You are the ones with illusions of grandeur.You all will never conquer the world how you want to.
>>16350148I think that you think that wordplay equates to intelligence. I think that you imagine that you are quite clever. I think that you were born, have lived, and will die under a veil of ignorance that will never become apparent to you.
>>16350189Are you angry goy? Why don't you go shoot a synagogue? That will show them. Change begins with you goy
>>16350209They already have all shot themselves in the foot by ever walking through the doors of a synagogue.
>>16350161whites actually have more power overall
>>16350192Lmao, you're still here wasting your braincells talking back to me.Why are jews always acting like such prideful little kids? Do you all just never grow up?
>>16350221because Zionist whites are allowed to have power
>>16350232Whites allied with Jews because it benefits whites financially. Youre being used in case you need it spelled out
>>16349582Marx says: > zoom outhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB-vf5X9VfU&feature=youtu.be
>>16350252whatever helps you goy sleep at night
>>16350268Why do all jews look like ugly demons?
>>16350257Youtube censored my video have a boring graph instead
>>16350268WHY?
>>16350282to scare the dumb goyim
>>16350288Well it fucking works, you all are ugly as fuck.
>>16350296its for the cattle to be angry at his master
>Keynesian economics won against Austrian economicsThe absolute state of American education.
>another thread derailed by muh jews
>>16350305This the only rhetoric you can muster up?Why do jews love niggers so damn much?
>>16350311whites and niggers have the same mentality. both cattle of the jewish masters
>>16350322One is not like the other.
>>16350306Use Austrian economics to explain Germany's miracle economic recovery in the 30s before WW2.
>>16350335I'm kind of glad you guys are replacing whites with niggers, whites would never eat you alive, niggers definitely will in the future.
>>16350335I guess you can be proud for being marginally better than niggers. For jews you are both the same though lmao
>>16350341Blacks are going to fry you all up like chicken.
this thread is dumb>>16350257I want to tenderly but roughly fuck alunya and give her multiple bod-shaking orgasms
>>16350347If you couldn't do it what makes you think niggers will? lmao
>>16350338Did Germany win? No. Hence we live under Jewish MMT. That's why it's so funny to see the Amerifats lose their mind when you mention Keynes.
>>16350359Wow such a great contribution to the thread!!
>>16350361What makes you think they won't? You are literally retarded for having whites and niggers in the same bracket. The Chinese will eat you all too.
>>16350365thanks, I try
>>16350363Germany would have been fine if Hitler hadn’t stupidly abandoned the economic policies that worked through the mid 30s
>>16350363Germany won the race towards economic recovery from the Great Depression, and for the purposes of this discussion, is all that matters.Here's a spoiler though: MEFO bills were MMT.
>>16350370yes chinks might be harder to control because they are smarter than whites. but I don't worry we will eventually achieve it, with the help of our trusted white and nigger pawns of course
I'm pretty sure that modern economics takes pieces of both theories to create a unified modern theory. The father of Austrian economics was also one of the first people to think about marginal utility. Modern economics definitely DOES NOT ignore marginal utility. If we were to take everything that Austrian economics says as doctrine we'd have 100% reserve requirements at every bank, good luck getting a loan bro.
>>16350382They already see your bullshit from a mile away and are sharpening their knives every time you all turn your backs.
>>16350391yeah they will kick and scream just like whites did, but eventually will take the jewish D
>>16350402You're insane if you think they already don't have a jew removal contingency plan 50 years ago.
>>16350228kys wishful thinking jew
>>16350409I am glad that whites are so defeated that they think chinks are gonna save them lmao
>>16350409The reason I posted this, is because yes, you have helped them become a world super power through jewish satanic subversion, soon they will reach critical mass, and will remove you all like the tumor you all are.You will never be able to kill chinese nationalism.
>>16350414I'm not white.
>>16350421well whatever you are its the same for us. you are all cattle
For some reason I don't think this thread is about economics anymore
>>16350433And you are all dead, you just don't know it yet.
>>16350438whatever helps you sleep at night goy
>>16350433>jewish projection intensifies
>>16350445I am not jew, just repeating their thoughts for a price
>>16350452you do it with such skill like those are your own thoughts. die
>>16350455they have articulated these thoughts specifically for goyim consumption
>>16350465>...fellow goy...fuck off yid
>>16350359I wanna dump my load in her desu
Why do the very few still existent socialist and communist countries decide to use Austrian economics to successfully plan their economies?
>>16349436This guy fucks. Fpbp, but add some (((echoes))) next time
>>16349895The wikipedia literally calls MMT heterodox in the first sentence.
>>16350553based retard
When the dollar pops will MMT'ers and Keynsians finally admit defeat?
>>163506861930's Germany miracle economic recovery
>>16349430because keynesianism is the uiltimate form of what the nation state does to its economy
>>16350686when the dominance of the nation state collapses
>>16349819>That faggot wanted Bancor, a unit of account that would be used by a single world Bank to et an individual country interest rates to control current accounts.He proposed it, and his proposal was rejected. Instead they chose a system of managed exchange rates which was just as bad, and it was decades before a free market system replaced it.The term "Keynesian economics" doesn't mean agreeing with Keynes on everything, nor emulating his mistakes. It means acknowledging the business cycle, and setting government policy to dampen and exploit it with countercyclical spending. And that's good policy.
>>16350686keynesianism and mmt will have some presence along as long as governments exist, their entire existence needs and supports government
>>16349895MMT probably should be the prevailing theory today, as it identifies the false assumptions of its rivals and logically explains why those assumptions are false. Unfortunately it's not, as it's misunderstood by most economists as well as the general public.MMT does agree with Keynesianism on most issues.
>>16349713>Name a single thing that Austrian economics advocates that isn't both morally correct and economically correct.Favouring the interests of the already wealthy over those of everyone else.Now I'll flip the question: Name a single thing that Austrian economics advocates that is both morally correct and economically correct?
>>16349436The reverse is the case: when going into a downturn, the rich gain more power over the poor, because although everybody loses, the poor lose more. Keynesianism alleviates the downturn; Austrian economics exacerbates it.
>>16349430Keynesianism explains the cause of the problem and provides a way to fix it; Austrian economics effectively blames failure on previous success, and when the economy's in bad shape, all it tells us is to suck it up because it will be good for the economy in the long run.But Keynesianism lost its dominance in the 1970s because Keynes had failed to predict the effects of a supply shock, let alone what to do about it. After that governments tried to manage economic cycles with monetary policy alone, and often ignored what could be done with fiscal policy.
>>16350792You're overgeneralizing, rich people can just as easily become ruined and bankrupt in a downturn.Only the rich who hold their net worth in cash become the masters in a deflationary depression.
This thread is shit and full of Jews. >(((Keynesian economics)))>Austrian economics Gee, which one should I choose?
>>16350846Use Austrian economics to explain Germany's miracle economic recovery in the 30s before WW2.
>>16350858>tell goy citizenzs to go build some shit>get in debt to pay their salaries>few years pass>time to pay denbt>shit you built was completely useless>doesn't provide any value>as usual for centrally planned socialist economies>we can go bankrupt or continue the charade>???>WE MUST SECURE THE LANDS FOR OUR ARYAN PEOPLE AND GET RID OF THE JEWISH MENACE>go to war with entire world and get rekt>somehow this is a miracle nowuhh okay?
>>16351058>be a Jew>you're a Jew
>>16351058>we can go bankrupt or continue the charadeYou forgot the part where the German government borrowed money from itself.
>>16351072>jewjewjewyour brain on /pol/ lads, take note
>>16351119>be poor as fuck>hmm hey let's borrow money from ourselves>but we have no money> no biggie lads, we'll just print it>inflation ensues>go to war>get shrektyikes
>>16351139>>inflation ensuesokay boomer
>>16351184>homemade excel chart is his sourceI wasn't expecting anything more from a poltard.
>>16349430TL;DR but undoubtedly ITT: Two actual economists attempt to write an educated reply. One objectivist with no economics background self-taught on Austrian school via YouTube videos chimes in with a half-researched post that trails into unsubstantiated ranting. A bunch of people chime in supporting the objectivist view with lazy graphs that are the second or third response to a Google search of the general topic and words like "artificial" "intervention" "supply" "cap" and "libertarian." At least one hard science fag comes in to remind everyone that economics is a social science and subject to Elster's missing mechanism and hundreds of billions of potential interventions on each explanans.
>>16351194You're welcome to post contradictory data anytime.previous source: https://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/macro-economic-policy-and-votes-in-the-thirties-germany-and-the-netherlands-during-the-great-depression/current source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/05/10-lessons-from-1930s-germany-for-democracies-today/
Amazing amount of glowniggers, retards and naive fanatics in here.
>>16350027>wethe absolutely fucking pathetic state of the white race today, what happened to you guys? goddamn even indians today are making you look weak.
>>16351194This one's from wikipedia. Preisindex = price index
because austrian economics was a political propaganda project against the soviet union, not real economicseveryone who thinks austrian econ is true is an idiot. Keynesianism, however, isn't a perfect system because it increases inflation, but neoclassical economics didn't actually solve that problem because the increased financialisation of capital resulted in inflation via increased lending by private banks. That said, the inflation caused by keynesian programs is demand-pull, not supply-push, so not the brainlet understanding of inflation that is common on this board. Protip, "printing money" is not how inflation happens. It's the central bank which devalues the currency to introduce a greater quantity, not the fucking mint printing actual physical notes. When a government borrows from the central bank they don't print more physical bills to pay people
>>16351355wow you're so smart anon tell me more
>>16349430Because it allows governments to set monetary and fiscal policy
today is the day /pol/ invaded /biz/. today is a dark day. first the crypto shills and now poltards. damn it i hate. why do you faggots have to push your natsoc shit everywhere? you talk complete bullshit about economics. you don't know anything about that topic or only some youtube wikipedia shit tier but it seems to make sense for yourselves cause this neofascistic circle jerk applaudes every time you talk shit.
>>16351482Would you like to share your account of 1930s Germany?
>>16351355There were Austrian economics before there was Soviet Union.>>16350286Post it on /wsg/>>16349633>Keynesian economics is the predominant theory todayIt isn't. There are some Keynesian ideas that remain and were incorporated and some teachers who are still hardcore Keynesian but since the 70-80's it lost a lot of support.>>16351294I am not informed about the particularities of this case but it looks like it was in part an actual organic recovery and growth after the depression but with higher growth than it would have otherwise as a result of fractional reserve banking, lower inflation rates or any other kind of cheap money scheme, term transformation or any combination of those. Massive infrastructure projects are usually a good indication of this. It's like eating all the food in the fridge, the indicators of food ingested will rise sharply until you suddenly realise there's nothing more left and you have no food to eat for the weekend. That's why in some wars GDP also increases.I would rather take Germany after the war if I wanted an example of prosperous and sustainable growth.
>>16351529>organic recovery and growth after the depressionDepression was still ongoing (1929 - late 30s) when recovery started for Germany (1933), which is exactly when Hitler and Schacht came to power.>result of fractional reserve banking, lower inflation rates or any other kind of cheap money scheme, term transformation or any combination of thoseThere was a lot more drama to it, but that more or less was it>It's like eating all the food in the fridge, the indicators of food ingested will rise sharply until you suddenly realise there's nothing more left and you have no food to eat for the weekend.Using this analogy, food was cheap because the depression was global and raw material exporters were just as desperate to sell. Schacht was able to negotiate to settle directly with Reichsmarks, and along with careful oversight of foreign exchanges instead of a free market, was able to meet the needs of their public work programs and rearmament."The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.">I would rather take Germany after the war if I wanted an example of prosperous and sustainable growth.Of course, but the main subject of Keynes is recovery from depression-type market failures. Post-war recovery is of a completely different nature. If it's any consolation, Schacht wanted to stop their programs immediately after reaching full employment to return to a free market and start paying off the debt. But this is where Hitler said no and the rest is history.
>>16349515> hasn't heard of Klerosthe arm of the state will dissolve sooner than you think. buy guns, ammo, medicine, and Kleros.
>>16350826>You're overgeneralizing, rich people can just as easily become ruined and bankrupt in a downturn.No, not just as easily. Obviously they can, but the rich generally have assets they can sell.>Only the rich who hold their net worth in cash become the masters in a deflationary depression.You seem to think becoming the masers equates to becoming richer. It doesn't. When money becomes scarcer, power becomes more dependent on money. Most of the rich also lose money but still have enough money left to gain power over the poor.
>>16349515Do you seriously think avoiding going out of business is the only incentive to be efficient?>>16351732WTF are Kleros?
>>16351355>It's the central bank which devalues the currency to introduce a greater quantity,Not any more! Now it is the market that devalues the currency. And a greater quantity can correspond with devaluation (for obvious reasons) but it doesn't always. Speculation and arbitrage are more important to the short term value, and balance of trade is more important to the long term value.
>>16350008what if i’m a gnostic polytheist
>>16349430It didn't. Take the post-Kenyesian pill.
>>16349555>Keynesianism allows politicians to push artificial prosperity(in the real economy)Neoliberism allows central bankers to push artificial prosperity(in the financial market only)
>>16351292The people at the top are whites and Jews. If you want to compare the dwindling white middle class to the Indian "middle class," the latter literally can't even operate toilets, hold promises, etc.
>>16351292Also you look reprehensible and lower class by your very nature, read the Rigveda for more
>>16351184>Full employment of both manpower and productive capacity would necessarily have led to price inflation if the government had not simultaneously instituted an all-embracing system of wage and price controls, for the double purpose of keeping down the level of consumption so production could be used for armament, and of adjusting distribution to consumption.https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1940110100I don't know anything about the subject matter, but I guess this is something worth pointing out
>>16351184Industrial prices had been controlled under Bruning after the deflationary decree of December I93I. The post of Commissioner for the Supervision of Prices was created to oversee the mandated price reductions. The Com- missioner was fired by the Nazis and then reappointed to deal with the threat of inflation. Echoing Soviet practice in the I920S, business enterprises were encouraged to join cartels--like the Wirtschaftsgruppe Eisenschaffende Industrie--in order to ease the job of regulating them. But the controls did not work well at first. At the start of the second Four Year Plan, a new Commissioner was appointed who quickly prohibited all price increases over the level of 17 October 1936, in the famous Price Stop (Preisstop) Decree.24More precise stuff from article calledSoviet and Nazi Economic Planning in the 1930sPeter Temin
>>16349436fpbp
>>16351482Go back faggot.
>>16350792forcibly binding people to your joke economy via taxation and the manipulation of the currency that you force them to use is the exact same thing as enslaving themproponents of an economy predicated on the enslavement of only the people who produce wealth, justified on the grounds that it's "more stable", could only come from people so lacking in self-awareness that they don't see the irony in recognizing the government—an entity in society that DOES NOT NECESSARILY have to EARN wealth in order to control it—as a regulatory force to prevent people from the perceived unjust acquisition wealth.if your economy is predicated on people not being allowed to leave, then you're a mafia—a gang of thugs that hurts and threatens SPECIFICALLY the practically skilled and intelligent people who don't pay up, and that pays off the idiot scum of society to shout and cheer about how much better the mafia is than anyone else, and to VOTE accordingly. no amount of justification that you present can change this fact.keynes was a grandmaster bullshitter whose ideas might even be worse for humanity than marx's, if only because they're more insidious.the ultimate factor in anything is genetics; in any system, everyone gets what they deserve. only with increasing free market capitalism, more often than not, do people and their genetics also get what they earn.
>>16349706Chile. Look into the Chicago Boys and Milton Friedman.
>>16349749research Chile and the Chicago Boys. Neoliberalism.
>>16349430>"win"you have a scam going for less than 1% of human history which is crashing and burning for 100 yearsspoiler alert: Keynesian economics is dead in the water
>>16353397>>16353402Milton Friedman was a Monetarist, not an Austrian. >There are some Keynesian ideas that remain and were incorporated and some teachers who are still hardcore Keynesian but since the 70-80's it lost a lot of support.Modern economic theories take a lot more from Keynesianism than they take from Austrian or Chicago schools of thought though.
>>16353397>>16353402Milton Friedman was a Monetarist, not an Austrian.>>16351529>There are some Keynesian ideas that remain and were incorporated and some teachers who are still hardcore Keynesian but since the 70-80's it lost a lot of support.Modern economic theories take a lot more from Keynesianism than they take from Austrian or Chicago schools of thought though. In economics courses the Austrian theory is only briefly mentioned, if at all, and most of the focus is on Keynesian models about when the government should increase or decrease spending and raise or lower taxes. Pretty much no one is saying the government should stay out of the economy, and in fact if you were to even suggest a thing to a real economist you'd be laughed out of the room.
>>16349436Fpbp >>16350282Jews are truly the work of Satan. >>16353237Unbelievably based and correct. Good post anon.
>>16350006You’re right. Anon has no idea what he’s talking about.
>>16352838So you're saying price controls work?>>16352868Imagine my shock and surprise when anti-inflationary price controls made a deflationary depression worse and the commissioner fired, then brought back when they actually had to deal with inflation.
>>16353402See >>16351355Imagine a coup overthrowing a socialist president seeking advice and support from a group that preaches that opposite. Unheard of.And don't forget the amount of financial and commercial aid the US gave to Pinochet.
>>16351904Yes you fucking idiot
>>16349430Politicians can give "free" shit to the masses in a Keynesian economy.
>>16349456When was the last time Keynesianism was actually tried?
>>16350228The one on the left looks like he was bathing in vodka in the womb.
>>16355196They just look like fucking demons, I can't stand it, I'm not sure how they've been able to gain everyone's trust throughout history, I wouldn't even talk to a jew.
>>163551712008It could have gone a lot better if they actually followed through with Keynes and provided liquidity to Lehman Brothers.
>>16355409Obama raised taxes. Democrats in general favor higher taxes and higher spending all the time regardless of the situation the economy is in. Republicans favor cutting taxes and...well they say they want to lower spending but they usually raise that as well (which ironically makes them more Keynesian than the Democrats).
>>16355443You're confusing economics with ideology and political warfare distractions. Absolutely disgusting.
>>16355623Keynesianism advocates for government intervention in the economy, meaning that by necessity it requires political involvement.
>>16355727Keynesianism does not advocate for continuous government intervention which is what your post would imply. You should also remember that central banks are designed to be independent from politics as much as possible in many countries.Let me also clarify then, party warfare distractions.
>>16355762>Keynesianism does not advocate for continuous government interventionExactly. >>16355762>You should also remember that central banks are designed to be independent from politics as much as possible in many countries.Central banks can implement monetarist policies by themselves, but not Keynesian policies.
Free markets cannot exists, because money and power follow pareto distributions, meaning there is either a ruling class (and a ruling mindset that has less to do with logic and more with power structure) or a power vacuum which means war and uncertainty.
>>16355778>Exactly.So you agree your comments on political parties are immaterial to the response of the 2008 crisis as an example of Keynes in practice.>Central banks can implement monetarist policies by themselves, but not Keynesian policies.Monetarist policies are a part of Keynes just as much as fiscal policies are, which I assume is what you were actually referring to.
>>16355821>political parties are immaterial to the response of the 2008 crisis as an example of Keynes in practiceGovernment response to the 2008 crises requires politicians to act to enact Keynesian policies. Politicians are part of political parties and do not follow Keynesian economic theories.>Monetarist policies are a part of Keynes just as much as fiscal policies areYes, they are one small part of the greater whole of Keynesian economic theory, but a Central Bank alone cannot implement Keynesian policy to respond to a recession.
>>16355838>Politicians are part of political parties and do not follow Keynesian economic theories.What do you call the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008?>but a Central Bank alone cannot implement Keynesian policy to respond to a recessionWhat do you call Quantitative easing?
>>16355880>What do you call the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008?An act that was accompanied by increases in taxes which are against Keynesian policies.
Orthodoxy mystifies economic relations through "sophisticated" mathematics guided by Walras tendency towards general equilibrium and instantaneous exogenous shocks as the only real disruptive force (Dsge models). Their models are manipulated in order to allow for existing single solutions. (Glorified linear algebra basicaly).Keynesianism and post-keynesianism on the other hand are mostly economic astrology. They cant quantify counter-factuals and are thus unable to measure costs of opportunity. Any recomendation based on keynesianism is baseless because it cant be obtained through a cost-benefit analysis.The austrian school is even worse. Anything after the first austrians was a mistake. Austrians mystify the nature of power and hide power centers. The "battle" was lost from the beginning. Austrianism cant be a tool of power in the jouvenelian sense. It cant allow eternal growt only moderate obsfuscation.
>>16355903Please explain further for idiots. Everything but specially the last point.
>>16354088I'm saying it's misleading of you to go "lol look there's no inflation" when they literally banned raising prices
>>163561171/2All economic activity relies on the usage of avaible means towards mutually exclusive ends. Pure economics is based around the relations between scarce means and the desirable ends. Normative economics deals with ethics and creates a hierarchy of ends. It defines priorities. Any economic decision demonstrates preference among the considered applications of labour and capital. If i choosed A instead of B and C i prefered at the time A. The expected value of the action A was higher than B or C. We have preferences + resources = prefered action. The concept of cost of opportunity here is key. My economic profit is not the surplus i get from the action A, but the surplus i get from A minus the surplus i would get from B or C. The cost of opportunity is the best alternative option i have. There are multiple models/perspectives trying to evaluate the cost/benefit of certain sets of possible aplications of capital and labour.The orthodox new-keynesianism uses DSGE models. They are very refined models based around the general equilibrium theorem that simplify economic action and deal with simplifying hyphothesis in order to obtain a unique existent solution. If they have this unique solution they can predict the outcome of shocks over macroeconomic variables such as agreggate demand for labour, nominal prices, nominal salaries, etc. They use these models in order to evaluate the benefits/costs of certain interventions..
>>163561172/2The post-keynesians dont believe in these models. They reject them because they are unrealistic and end up exposing people to dangers they wouldn't expose themselves. They use macroeconomic identities and econometrics based on keynesian theory in order to construct optimal economic policy. The problem is that without the orthodox matematical models their forecastings/predictions are baseless (see "Lucas critique"). They cant measure the benefits/costs of inaction or of other patterns of intervention(counter- factuals). Their actions have long term repercutions that cant be reliably measured. They act because they feel like acting. Without cost-benefit annalysis your action cant be considered optimal or superior to other alternatives. Economic shamanism.Austrians have a good methodology. They are economic subjectivists and use a individualist methodology;(like Emerson). They reached the conclusion that economics isnt a science at all because it has no predictive capacity. Ironically enough, they reached the same conclusion marxists did later. Because austrians advocate against the madness of baseless interventionsm they arent usefull for power centers. They cant solidify or increase power. Even if you believe that they are wrong they cant help governmental authorities because their recomended policies would hurt most corporations and specially the government.Austrianism would cripple centralized power (at least the status quo). Austrians arent usefull to Power. They never were. This is why they were faded to lose sooner of later
>>16356117?/2Orthodoxy is used by neoliberal/neoconservative power structures while keynesianism and post-keynesianism are used mostly by non-liberals.
>>16349430>>16349436Why do communist shills make threads and then reply to them first and they proceed to jerk each other off until an actual anon comes and still pretend as though the thread wasn't planned from the start.People would respect you more if you didn't resort to such underhanded tactics.
>>16349507Tarrifs don't suck at all. Why would you think they do? Becuase orange man bad?
>>16356520>post-keynesianismwhat would be the seminal, defining work of post-keynesianism?
>>16356551They're inefficient. They protect a few businesses which ought to be allowed to fail at the expense of many businesses which suffer from the increased cost of goods. A tariff against steel imports may help steel manufacturers in the USA, but it raises the cost of steel for every other business which hurts construction, ship-building, the automobile industry, and just about any other business that uses steel, resulting in decreased profits, wages being lowered, and less employment.
>>16356144And where's the contradiction?
>>16356566Look up Kalecki, he's really the father.But if there's a single defining work it would be MMT.
>>16349507Actually Keynes did advocate for some amount of protectionism, the difference is that he wanted it to be temporary, much like his advocation for increased spending and lower interest rates, to be used during recession.
>>163494301/2I'm reading a lot of 'this vs. that,' and feel compelled to offer an alternative perspective: that keyneian and austrian economics aren't mutually exclusive at all.The fundamentals of each deal with different subjects: keynes dealt with demand-side and austrianism deals with supply side. (This is a gross simplification, but bear with me.)The reasons for dealing with these two things come down to a different focus: while austrian economics seeks to establish the best possible nash-equilibrium for a given scenario, keyensians seek the best possible paereto-equilibrium. In particular, they treat employment a little differently.
>>16356566Read Minsky and Keynes. If you want to understand MMT read Abba Lerner. Functional Finance(MMT) is keynesianism taken to its logical conclusion.
>>163494302/2So to talk about the Nash equilibrium, Austrians are looking at how entrepreneurs are supplied with resources via currency that's strongly backed, and therefore is loaned by the strongest sense of profit-maximizing self interest possible. They're looking to keep supply as strong as possible because it means that people who use resources are most likely to have good uses for them.Keynesians seeking the paereto-equilibrium accept a greater frequency of fuckups by acknowledging that, by and large, the entrepreneurs making use of resources are trying their best. Capital is kept a little more free-and-loose in exchange for a greater quantity of loan interactions. The idea there is that mitigating as much structural unemployment due to successful new ideas that we can results in the greatest quantity of entrepreneurs with the personal financial freedom to execute new ideas. Increasing the quantity of new business executions allows for more employment, and so on.So I posit that the two 'factions' aren't really at odds with one another, they're just looking at different levels of outcome and trying to maximize them. Austrians are asking, "in the worst case scenario how do we profit?" and keyensians are asking, "in the best case scenario how do we profit the most?"
>>16349784Austrian economics just means that wealth is measured in amount of money and assets that are owned. This has been shown wrong time and time again, all you have to do is watch the financial news and see that economic strength is measured by:>amount of public spending>amount of money available as credit>amount of public earningswealth is measured by velocity, it has to be borrowed and spent to make the economy moveNotice that you never see:>amount of public assetsas a measure of wealth
>>16357054You dont know what you are talking about. Pls stop pretending. This is embarassing. Wealth, by its very definition, is a stock of goods destined to future production. This includes means of production and the general representative of value(money, in non-marxist terminology). You are basically stating that wealth is given by demand and not a stock of goods while citing financial times. Stop pretending you understand austrianism. A marxist would disagree with you. A austrian would laugh.
>why did the government adopt an ideology that lets them spend massive amounts of money
>>16349769>Use Austrian economics to explain Germany's economic miracle recovery before WW2.>>16349820huuur dude, like austrian economics is so knarly>It's pretty easy to recover after having your country destroyed bro. Pretty much everything gets better after a war.>Just ending a war makes your economy instantly better.someone here is not aware of the Weimar Republic blowing out their currency with hyperinflation to pay public debt. Bear in mind the huge economic strength of Germany followed shortly after this hyperinflation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic>To pay for the large costs of the ongoing First World War, Germany suspended the gold standard (the convertibility of its currency to gold) when the war broke out. Unlike France, which imposed its first income tax to pay for the war, German Emperor Wilhelm II and the Reichstag decided unanimously to fund the war entirely by borrowing,The strategy failed when Germany lost the war. The new Weimar Republic was saddled with a massive war debt that it could not afford. That was worsened by the fact that it was printing money without economic resources to back it.[3] The Treaty of Versailles, with its demand for reparations, further accelerated the decline in the value of the mark, so that 48 paper marks were required to buy a US dollar by late 1919.>The first payment was made when it came due in June 1921.[9] It marked the beginning of an increasingly rapid devaluation of the mark, which fell in value to approximately 330 marks per dollar.[5] The total reparations demanded were 132 billion gold marks, but Germany had to pay only 50 billion marks.>Since reparations were required to be repaid in hard currency, not the rapidly depreciating paper mark, one strategy that Germany used was the mass printing of bank notes to buy foreign currency, which was then used to pay reparations, greatly exacerbating the inflation of the paper mark
So I've done some reading online and apparently most economists have merged into a sort of new neoclassical synthesis which combines a bunch of different economic theories and models into one, and they all exist within this synthesis but argue about the details. Which is cool I guess, but also kind of frustrating since it's impossible for someone who is on the outside looking in to understand economic consensus on things like regulation, taxes, spending, deficits, and central banking.
>>16357088>This includes means of productiontime to stop posting gramps, we havent lived in a production based economy for quite a long time, just go back to watching tv and stay off the internet
>>16357107Based Steve Keen(160 IQ) BTFOs the neoclassical meme
>>16356597Not at all because it incentivizes Americans to produce steel in house and any increase in cost will simple be given to the consumer. Oh noes i can't buy muh cheap Chinese garbage anymore what ever will i do!
>>16357173>any increase in cost will simple be given to the consumerWhich decreases consumption, which decreases profits and production, wages, and employment.
>>16357088If i bundle up all my shit and call it goods does that make my shit valuable or wealth creation. The correct answer you communist fuck is only if the market wants my shit.
>>16357107>i guess>needing consensus >muh authority Go back
>>16357107Ron Pual>it will hurt the working class>the working class will get paid more for their services
>>16357178>decreases consumptionWhy would you make this assumption, especially when a new steel mine is looking for new employees? Even if it did, it wouldn't hurt the overall economy. They would still spend, just on different things.
>>16357189Wealth is a stock of goods that can produce other goods. Thats literally it. Your pee jars are not wealth. This is not only a marxist definition, but also the austrian definition(source:" pure theory of capital").Virtual "wealth" isnt wealth. The financial markets mostly transfer wealth. The primary financial market is the only one that deals with actual wealth because it generates real output. It transfers surplus to those in need through thr promise of interest rates and dividends.
>>16357258When you raise the price on a good from increased cost, less people buy that good, and the people that do buy that good will have less money to buy other goods. And while the steel industry is hiring new workers, every other industry that uses steel is having to fire workers because of the increased cost and decreased profits. You're helping one business at the cost of everyone else.
>>16357315>Wealth is a stock of goods that can produce other goods.which basically means factories, almost nothing is produced in the US anymore, we live in a services and information economy. Even if you were to take the cost of a factory, the building (which very few companies own) the equipment, the value of all the machinery means nothing and is not taken into account other than Marxist idiots who actually believe that power is in the 'means of production'
>>16357237>What are nominal prices>What are real pricesAre you retarded?
>>16357361Means of production are simply called superior goods in austrian theory. Rubber is a superior good. A engine is a superior good. An orange can be a superior good if you own a juice factory. Human capital is also a good. All of the above are considered wealth because they can be used for future production. You are just being obtuse.
>>16349430Just putting this out there anon. Keynesian economics isn't really what we use anymore post 2008. It still is the foundation for a lot of models and the whole capital stock holds true for a lot of developing countries.As it turns out even using GDP as an indicator of growth is pretty shit. It was originally used in WW2 to identify industrial output and where it would be best to hurt the war economy.As of right now macroeconomics is in the shitter. We know certain things follow more or less similar growth trends, but don't know why productivity grows the way it does. We don't even have a good definition of productivity, just that its what's left over when you throw inputs used in production together.
>>16355880>What do you call Quantitative easing?Free money for the S&P to avoid pension funds and bad bank full of unrepaid loans to collapse Nothing in common with real economy stimulus
>>16357465I'll be honest, modern economics really fucking confuses me. I understand that the old "school" system (Austrian, Keynesian, Chicago, etc.) is outdated, but at least it was easy to understand. Everyone today is in this sort of sludge of a mixture of different ideas that don't necessarily correlate with any particular ideology or school.
>>16356479>They reject them because they end up exposing people to dangers they wouldn't expose themselvesSuch as?>They cant solidify or increase power. Even if you believe that they are wrong they cant help governmental authorities because their recomended policies would hurt most corporations and specially the government.Austrianism would cripple centralized power (at least the status quo)How does this work? Why would an Austrian framework be useless and an Orthodox one not?>This is why they were faded to lose sooner of laterSo how do you propose? Is there no solution to this?I'd be glad if you could provide some links or sources to learn about all this.>>16356597It can be used as a tax on the national market to sell at lower and more competitive prices at the foreign markets where, once it gets a hold of it in prejudice of foreign corporations, will be paid back + interest.
>>16357578>It can be used as a tax on the national market to sell at lower and more competitive prices at the foreign markets whereAre you saying that the government should subsidize the steel industry after raising tariffs on it? Or lower domestic taxes on it after raising tariffs?
>>16357342But they be losing money though becuase the new steel workers will be purchasing steel with their new income. Its trickle down economics which in fact does work in reality, just depends where it trickles down.
>>16357383An orange is only a superior good if you own a juice factory. That's the real difference
Tarrifs are just light embargoes which have always had bad economic effects on the embargoed but good effects for the embargoers
>>16357743No. Stell prices post-tariff are higher on the national market. This allows for the national steel industry to export at cheaper prices. Once the foreign steel industry goes bankrupt (or the national one can compete with it) it can rise prices in the foreign markets and the tariff is removed. It can lower them in the national market now so you get back those initial high prices.
>>16357873The national steel industry still can't compete with foreign steel on the foreign market because the factors that caused it to become uncompetitive in the first place haven't been fixed. The steel is still just as uncompetitively expensive at it was before, you just eliminated the domestic competition through tariffs, but foreign competition is as strong as ever.
>>16357958The foreign competition is no more. The higher prices charged on the domestic market were used to finance cheaper prices on the foreign one until it couldn't sustain its losses anymore.
>>16358034>The higher prices charged on the domestic market were used to finance cheaper prices on the foreign one until it couldn't sustain its losses anymore.There's no country big enough that domestic profits could subsidize foreign losses like that.
>>16349430Because it makes parasites rich
>>16358202Well if I recall correctly Germany did it back in the day.
>>16358233In which day?
>>16354588You disregard all other incentives and you call me a fucking idiot?I'm pretty sure if you asked everyone on this board which one of us is the idiot, they'd nominate the one who doesn't regard financial success as an incentive!
>>16353237>forcibly binding people to your joke economy via taxation and the manipulation of the currency that you force them to use is the exact same thing as enslaving themForcibly binding??? I'm not suggesting preventing anyone from leaving.Let me guess: you're one of those meme libertarians who considers all duty to be slavery?You're happy for the poor to be excluded from the land of the rich, but you think the rich's right to tell the poor to FOAD is more important than the rights of the poor?You think that the only people who produce wealth are those who are already rich, and that they're enslaved. And you disregard what the government can do to enable everyone (not just the rich) to produce more wealth. I suggest you take your eyes off Rand's fantasy and start looking at the real world!
>tfw economics has been so refined that we've managed to approach a near unified theory on how to handle the economy via new neoclassical synthesis>tfw dumb voters will never vote for proper economic policiesWe should honestly just create an unelected oligarchy ran be economists at this point.
>>16358919economics is 100% bullshit
>>16349430People love free shit and empty promises. Not to mention how the government systems screwed up heavily, blamed it on the private sector, and then when it was fixed by the private sector, the government claimed responsibility for the upward trend.
>>16358926Then how are they able to develop models which accurately predict what is going to happen in the economy and how government policies can adjust it?
>>16357498>Nothing in common with real economy stimulusWhat's a "real economy stimulus"?
>>16359841One where the money doesn't stay in the financial sector, but actually results in businesses increasing their production.
>>16358919>We should honestly just create already done, but its not you who did it
>>163583641870 onwards.>>16360156Who did?
>>16350686Mmt is only a discection of the current American system and is not an economic theory in the same sense as Keynesian economic theory.
>>16349430Because it works better to paper over capitalism's inherent contradictions. Without a state, economic crisis leads to societal instability, and eventually the whole thing collapsing. Those in charge want to keep the machine chugging for as long as possible, and Austrian economics just doesn't do that. As a socialist, I honestly wished this wasn't the case, and support Austrian-Accelerationism https://www.hoover.org/research/how-fdr-saved-capitalism
Keynesian theory is to engineer society while austrian try to understand it
>>16350686The dollar is not a bubble, Anon. It will not pop, as its value is self correcting.>>16360898MMT is not limited to the current American system. It is very much an economic theory, as it explains what the result of various changes will be and why.What is it you think Keynesian economic theory has that MMT lacks?>>16361196The austrians are more concerned with pretending they understand it than trying to actually understand it.
>>16349436This. They even admit to rent seeking.
>>16358231based
>>16349430It didn't, some forms of "Keynesianism" (in the popular sense) were being practised before Keynes and even the degree to which academic standard textbook economics of the 1950s was really "Keynesian" (in the sense Keynes would understanding) is questionable. After the 1970s stagflation "Keynesianism" lost public credibility and everyone returned to faith in older theories. Also it depends what you mean by "Austrianism"... Hayek rejected the methodology of Mises.>>16349725>Austrianism is just free marketNo it's not, Austrians like Mises and Rothboard don't even approve of a real free market in money and demand gold have a monopoly to fix the money supply.
>>16350686Keynes thought about monetary policy different from what's today called MMT... the world was to far different from todays experience with convertible floating currencies.Also if the dollar "pops" it's the fault of idiotic politicians and bureaucrats, all MMT does is explain the mechanism and what to expect from actions.
>>16350006Labor participation lowest in 50 years.
>>16349507Have you seriously not read Free Trade Doesn’t Work by Ian Fletcher?