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• Converting the Preachers

  …what happened over the last two years. Minsky was in effect filling in many of the intellectual blanks left by John Maynard Keynes on the critical question of how financial markets affect the "real" economy. Nonetheless, an assessment of Minsky …

  By Michael Hirsh

  10/27/2009Politics
• Restarting the Job Machine

  …today's 9.8 percent un-employment to 5 percent until 2017. Ugh. The Keynesian solution (after economist John Maynard Keynes , who died in 1946) holds that government activism can generate more jobs. That's the theory behind the $787 …

  By Robert J. Samuelson

  10/16/2009Newsweek - Robert J. Samuelson
• The Most Misunderstood Man in America

  …Andrew Sheng says, "I think Stiglitz is the nearest thing there is to Keynes in this crisis." That would be John Maynard Keynes , the great 20th-century economist who rocketed to international renown in late 1919 when he published The Economic …

  By Michael Hirsh

  07/18/2009Business
• Channeling Milton Friedman

  …used to be in charge of resolving crises would never have done. But Schwartz says that Friedman—who along with John Maynard Keynes , his polar opposite in thought, was the 20th century's most influential economist—would be just as disturbed by what …

  By Michael Hirsh

  07/17/2009Politics
• Building A Better List

  …Big Sleep (No. 66)? How do you rate fiction (George Orwell's 1984, say, ranked No. 2) with nonfiction ( John Maynard Keynes 's The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, which clocks in at No. 92)? Can you weigh The History of …

  06/29/2009Books

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