How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes



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how an economy grows

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With such glaring advantages over their stuffy rivals, a self-
fulfi lling mutual admiration society soon produced a corps of 
top economists inbred with a loyalty to Keynesian principles.
These analysts take it as gospel that Keynesian policies were 
responsible for ending the Great Depression. Many have 
argued that without the stimuli provided by government 
(including expenditures necessary to wage the Second 
World War), we would never have recovered from the 
economic abyss. Absent from this analysis is the fact that the 
Depression was the longest and most severe downturn in 
modern history and the fi rst that was ever dealt with using 
the full range of Keynesian policy tools. Whether these 
interventions were the cause or the cure of the Depression 
is apparently a debate that no serious “economist” ever 
thought was worth having. 
With Keynesians in fi rm control of economics departments, 
fi nancial ministries, and investment banks, it’s as if we have 
entrusted astrologers instead of astronomers to calculate 
orbital velocities of celestial bodies. (Yes, the satellite crashed 
into an asteroid, but it is an unexpected encounter that could 
lead to enticing possibilities!)
The tragi-comic aspect of the situation is that no matter how 
often these economists completely fl ub their missions, no 
matter how many rockets explode on the launchpad, no one 
of consequence ever questions their models.
Most ordinary people have come to justifi ably feel that 
economists don’t know what they are talking about. But most 
assume that they are clueless because the fi eld itself is so vast, 

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