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Dawn of the dead economists - Keynes, Marx and the search for alternatives
Ed Walsh of the Irish Socialist Network
November 6th, 2008
John Maynard Keynes once remarked that “practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”. Are we approaching a time when practical men (and women) will have to make a conscious choice between the philosophies of two long-dead economists: Keynes himself and Karl Marx?
www.irishleftreview.org/2008/11/06/dawn-dead-economists-keynes-marx-search-alternatives/
Ed Walsh of the Irish Socialist Network
November 6th, 2008
John Maynard Keynes once remarked that “practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”. Are we approaching a time when practical men (and women) will have to make a conscious choice between the philosophies of two long-dead economists: Keynes himself and Karl Marx?
www.irishleftreview.org/2008/11/06/dawn-dead-economists-keynes-marx-search-alternatives/