> There is no better pair of examples than the US' reaction to Marx and
> Keynes;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_are_all_Keynesians_now
"We are all Keynesians now" is a now-famous phrase coined by Milton Friedman and attributed to U.S. president Richard Nixon. It is popularly associated with the reluctant embrace in a time of financial crisis of Keynesian economics by individuals such as Nixon who had formerly favored monetarist policies.