[lbo-talk] FT/Harris: Economic stupidity epidemic throughout populace

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Tue Jul 13 15:45:09 PDT 2010


On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, brad wrote:


> > ... because like all ideology it's simplistic and inflexible, in some
> > situations, like this one, it's dead wrong. They're sailing their own
> > system into the sandbars and they can't turn the wheel because they're
> > possessed by their own spell.
>
> Really? I think one of the key lessons to learn from neoliberalism is
> that there aren't necessarily immediate limits imposed by aggregate
> demand.

Um, that's the exactly the Keynesian point I'm making, Brad. The pro-austerity crowd takes as a given that there are. Even when making that mistake will cost capitalists lots of profits they didn't have to lose.

Michael



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