Sunday, September 4, 2011

Brad DeLong: too generous to those he disagrees with

Posted by dkuehn at 7:56 AM
Brad writes: "Few people have compared John Maynard Keynes to Adolf Hitler, or the Keynesian Revolution to the blitzkrieg".

Apparently he does not read the same blogs I do...

7 comments:

  1. It probably depends on what you mean by "few."

    I'd say far fewer people have compared Keynes to Hitler than has been the case with Milton Friedman. Anyway, Keynes isn't really compared to Hitler; the claim is more that the ideas presented in the general theory are compatible with fascist economics. Those are different claims.

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  2. Yeah I'll bite too, Daniel. What blogger has compared Keynes to Hitler?

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  3. Off topic, but Daniel, are you by any chance related to an economic historian named George W. Kuehn? I'm just curious.

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  4. I see the the Hitler comparisons more often in the comment sections than on the blog posts themselves.

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  5. Guys, Daniel was joking.

    Exaggerations, hyperbole,.etc.

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  6. Prateek,

    If so, then not a terribly effective joke.

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  7. 'Anyway, Keynes isn't really compared to Hitler; the claim is more that the ideas presented in the general theory are compatible with fascist economics. Those are different claims. '

    Isn't it true that any economic system other than anarchy is compatible with Fascism? Chile etc...

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