Monday, May 24, 2021
John Maynard Keynes
Let's start the week off with some serious John Maynard Keynes bashing.
In April, 1989, Murray Rothbard did a great job bashing Keynes (the person) at a Mises Institute event held in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Although Rothbard gave Keynes a thoroughgoing over, he did not mention that Keynes was also a cheapskate despite the fact that on a political/philosophical level, as Rothbard mentioned, Keynes was anti-thrift. Talk about a hypocrite, Keynes was that from start to finish. I am sure Rothbard would have mentioned it if he were aware.
Anyway, the dirt is now out, Justyn Walsh reports: