“So we went with the commie instead of the homosexual.”
As was Keynes’ fellow Brit Alan Turing, the guy that broke the Enigma code.
White the Commie was one of ours. But White’s Bretton Woods plan had nothing in common with Soviet command economics.
Keynes however routinely gets blamed for things that he didn’t believe, thanks to liberals who invoke his name for their own socialist policies.
Keynes once attended a conference of “Keynesian Economists” and his wry comment about that was “I was the only non-Keynesian there”.
All macroeconomic analysis uses Keynes’ work. Supply-side does. Monetarism does. It’s a basic part of virtually any economic study that looks at the economy as a whole.
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Doesn’t say anything. You could say the same of the ideas of Hayek or von Mises.