Introduction

The most influential economist of the 20th century was John Maynard Keynes. His main claim to fame is his advocacy of deficit spending as a tool of economic recovery. Since 1936, we've experienced decades of huge deficits growing and increasingly accelerating government debt. So what went wrong? We should ask an intellectual history question: how close is Keynesian practice now?"

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