[lbo-talk] America's singularly depraved culture

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sun Aug 23 19:51:42 PDT 2009


On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Doug Henwood wrote:


> Keynes said that profit inflations were a great time for culture - an
> example he gave was Elizabethan England. 1982-2005 was a great profit
> inflation. What'd we get?

Mightn't Keynes have been drawing a curve through 2 points? The original American gilded age had shit for culture, no? The money mainly fueled an explosion of epicurianism and investment in blue chip art from overseas.

Michael



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