Hvala bogu, da je Milton pod rušo

| 18. March 2008 | | kronist

Včasih me kar zmrazi, ko kakšen lokalni vedež maha z nasveti Miltona Friedmana in zaslepljenim ignorantom priporoča to ali ono njegovo knjigo (ko je to nazadnje storil razgledni Vojc, sem zgubil upanje v uravnoteženo debato na tistem blogu - in prav sem imel). Domnevam pa, da tudi liberalni skrajneži tiho pritrjujejo Paulu Krugmanu, ko ta izpostavlja neke vrste keynesianizem kot edino možno pot iz gospodarske krize v ZDA:

Why not the Great Depression?

Because I think we know something that we didn’t then. The Federal Reserve was clueless back then. They were only concerned about protecting the nation’s gold reserves, and the federal government believed that austerity and cutting spending was the answer to recession. I think we know more than we did then, and just the fact that we have a big federal government is a stabilizing factor. But the current problem is still pretty awesome. Vir.

Sicer pa - kdaj so se razni neoliberalci branili socializma in keynesianizma, ko je bilo treba rešiti njihove riti? Od dolžniške krize 80ih, ko jih je na plečih globalnih revežev reševal IMF, do danes, ko jih na plečih brezdomcev rešuje Fed.