Keynes, Keynesians, the Long Run, and Fiscal Policy

[james_davis_nicoll]

One dead giveaway that someone pretending to be an authority on economics is in fact faking it is misuse of the famous Keynes line about the long run.

I wonder how much would be needed to convince Krugman to read Anderson's The Avatar?

Comments

[connactic.livejournal.com]

He is on record for liking SF (specifically the Foundation Trilogy).

I read 'The Avatar' when I was <15 (so 30 years ago)- is Keynes' quote misused in it?

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Also Stross's Family Trade. And writing a paper on interstellar trade.

[icedrake.livejournal.com]

Charlie interviewed him at, I believe, Anticipation.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

No, but the possibility that the government might start using Keynsian economics is talked about in the same hushed, horrified tones that H.P. Lovecraft might use on discovering his grandmother was black.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

He probably already has.