John Maynard Keynes Sing-Along

John Maynard Keynes Sing Along from the breakthrough Educational Jazz album "What Do You Know, Kid?"

Other songs: Edison, Photosynthesis, Albert Einstein, Gravitation, E=mc2, Constants, Apostrophe's Song, Antibiotics. Hear them all at:

www.wdykk.blogspot.com

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• Maynard
• Keynes
• economy
• economist
• recession
• unemployment
• stimulus
• obama

[xpxzampop]

@WelshLibertarian I'm pretty sure it's a joke... relax

[WelshLibertarian]

This song is dispicable because it praises a man that has inflicted so much pain and misery on the world because of his wrong-headed economics.

[spamdude1]

The songs says that Keynes's writings are entertaining and useful in college -- not even his acolytes would try to argue that

[SaviorOfLogic]

@rickbar123 *cough*Hayek*cough*, yeah, because everyone who opposes Keynes praises Milton Friedman.

[notrwhitecrow]

@WelshLibertarian you really think its that simple. amazing

[Pwecko]

@blueray1969 Before you over-praise Keynes (he was an idiot - a clever idiot but an idiot nonetheless), try reading 'The Failure Of The New Economics' by Henry Hazlitt, in which he rips Keynes's General Theory to pieces.

[Pwecko]

@RiTuaLzDiTz No.

[blueray1969]

Before slagging him off, read his "The Economic Consequences of the peace", published in 1919. If people had listened to him then, WWII might never have happened. He was a genius!

[sadkins1]

@kkmarivate Interesting parallel.

Jesus never gave intellectual or moral grounds to would be crusaders to indulge their bloodthirsty proclivities. Kings and crusaders co-opted His message for their own gains.

Keynes, on the other hand, encouraged governments to do what they already are predisposed to do: spend money. Keynes himself gave politicians what they had craved - a theory which supported their own ends, ie, the vast expansion of political power through "fiscal policy."