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by churchill 1074 days ago
Keynes has to be THE most confusing and self-contradictory personality in orthodox economics. He had no original insights and the only reason political elites took a liking to him was because he gave them a logical, complicated copout for money printer to go brrrrrrr. He frequently changed his theories and ideas for political expediency and the idea that modern 'economists' take his teaching as gospel truth is just sad.

Murray Rothbard wrote an entire profile on the man [0] and I'd suggest anybody taking a stab at heterodox economics to read it.

[0]: https://mises.org/library/keynes-man-1

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> frequently changed his theories and ideas for political expediency... Murray Rothbard

Man if there was ever a pot for a kettle...