sado-monetarism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Feb 10 10:28:47 PST 2002


Chris Brooke wrote:


>>Keynes did not use the term, I think. The first source I encountered was
>>Doug Henwood.
>
>I think the person who coined the phrase was British Labour
>politician Denis Healey, probably in the early 1980s, when he was
>attacking the Geoffrey Howe/Margaret Thatcher monetarist
>experiments. His book, "The Time of my Life" is probably the place
>to look, though I don't have a copy to hand.

I got it from Susan George, who credited Healey for it.

Doug



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