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To: IbJensen

It occurred to me today that Keynesian economics is nothing more than the “broken windows fallacy” extrapolated to the entire economy.


4 posted on 08/30/2011 7:13:34 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

My interpretation of this is that breaking a window is a net decrease to the system as a whole and is a net cost to the system.

Everything comes down to input and output of a system, that is why Keynesian Economics don’t work.

If they go back to basic system theory, they are making up false inputs into the system. Any balanced system when burdened with too much artificial input or output becomes unstable.

And that is if it was a physical system, just imagine once you through in human beings.


21 posted on 08/30/2011 7:34:01 AM PDT by dila813
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To: MrB

I read Keynesian as Kenyan.

(either is correct)


38 posted on 08/30/2011 8:32:35 AM PDT by Dryman (Define Natural Born Citizen)
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