Sunday, September 4, 2011

Brad DeLong: too generous to those he disagrees with

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...
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7 comments:

  1. Gary GunnelsSeptember 4, 2011 at 9:58 AM

    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. Bob MurphySeptember 4, 2011 at 1:08 PM

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

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  3. StravinksySeptember 4, 2011 at 5:02 PM

    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. DesolationJonesSeptember 4, 2011 at 7:13 PM

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

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  5. Prateek SanjaySeptember 4, 2011 at 9:23 PM

    Guys, Daniel was joking.

    Exaggerations, hyperbole,.etc.

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  6. Gary GunnelsSeptember 4, 2011 at 11:30 PM

    Prateek,

    If so, then not a terribly effective joke.

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  7. CahalSeptember 6, 2011 at 4:22 PM

    '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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