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Martin Wolf Puts It Better than Anyone Else I Have Seen
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Martin Wolf on our current magneto trouble: FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Keynes offers us the best way to think about the financial crisis : We are all Keynesians now. When Barack Obama takes office he will propose a gigantic fiscal stimulus package. Such packages are being offered by ...
FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Choices made in 2009 will shape the globe’s destiny
ft.com - 1/7/2009
FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Choices made in 2009 will shape the globe’s destiny
— ft.com — Published: January 6 2009 19:27 | Last updated: January 6 2009 19:27 Ingram Pinn illustration EDITOR’S CHOICE... Economists’ forum - Oct-01 Every week, 50 of the world’s most influential economists discuss Martin Wolf’s articles on FT.com You have ... (more) FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Choices made in 2009 ...

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Matthew Yglesias — Brad DeLong recommends Martin Wolf: Keynes’s genius – a very English one – was to insist we should approach an economic system not as a morality play but as a technical challenge. He wished to preserve as much liberty as possible, while recognising that the minimum state was unacceptable to a democratic society with an urbanised economy. He wished to preserve a market economy, without believing that laisser faire makes everything for the best in the best of all possible worlds. This same moralistic debate is with us, once again. Contemporary “liquidationists” [on the right] insist that a collapse would lead to rebirth of a purified economy. ...

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