the 3 K's

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Oct 7 09:41:30 PDT 1998


Lynn Turgeon clarified his position on full employment under fascism for the Post-Keynesian Thought list, in response to a critique of Keynes's own Malthusianism:


>Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 10:12:56 -0400 (EDT)
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>From: "LYNN TURGEON, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF ECONOMICS, HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY,
>ECOELT at VAXB.HOFSTRA.EDU" <ECOELT at Hofstra.edu>
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>Arno. Keynes was initially a Malthusian, but changed his mind after Hansen
>recognized the positive role of increases in population as a plus in his
>secular stagnation thesis, Hitler was always pronatalist and he reduced
>unemployment by getting women to go back to the home and to produce babies
>which were heavily subsidized. The women in the Czech Sudatenland also had an
>increase in fertility rates before Hitler took this area and broke up
>Czechoslovakia. Lynn

So, ladies, pack up & go home, the men got work to do!

Doug



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