Friday, June 19, 2009
Roosevelt the Free Marketeer
In a Washington Post article Ezra Klein rips John Tamny for giving a (very dumbed down) Austrian spin on the social function of recessions (HT2PK). Klein concludes:
At this moment, federal spending does not exist in competition with household spending. It's one of the last forces sustaining it. Indeed, the idea that the economy will heal itself if the government only steps out of the way is exactly the thinking that led to the deep recession of 1937. What a pity those lessons haven't been better learned.Look, I understand why Christina Romer can argue with a straight face that declining deficits are bad news in a depression. But Klein has upped the ante here. Now Roosevelt wasn't merely trying to rein in deficits (which after all was his 1932 campaign pledge), but we're saying it was because he believed in laissez-faire?! I guess he learned his lesson when the Supreme Court overturned his unconstitutional attempts to centrally plan the economy, eh? It's funny the different paths some of us take to our free market views.
Comments:
That is a cruel thing to joke about, Mr. Murphy!
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Too bad Mr. Klein does not make a habit of reading Mr. Tamny. The very next day, Mr. Tamny retorts with the damning evidence of the 1920 depression in his next column at RealClearMarkets.
His quote:
"Ohio University professor Richard Vedder observed at a Council on Foreign Relations symposium in March that 'The 1920s downturn, although initially more severe than the Great Depression, turned out to be relatively short and weak precisely because the federal government did nothing.'"
Sometimes, Mr. Klein, the dilettantes should stay out of the fray.
His quote:
"Ohio University professor Richard Vedder observed at a Council on Foreign Relations symposium in March that 'The 1920s downturn, although initially more severe than the Great Depression, turned out to be relatively short and weak precisely because the federal government did nothing.'"
Sometimes, Mr. Klein, the dilettantes should stay out of the fray.
The brilliance of Keynes and the Keynesians lies in their uncanny ability to squeeze so much doubletalk and dishonest nonsense into so few words. They write a paragraph and it takes three paragraphs to refute all of the half-truths and falsehoods set forth. To get the true picture of Keynes’ massive scam, I would suggest reading “The Failure of the New Economic” by Henry Hazlitt. It’s available to download as a pdf file from the Mises Institute:
http://blog.mises.org/archives/005833.asp
Of the book, John Chamberlain wrote:
"Mr. Hazlitt takes up the General Theory line by line and paragraph by paragraph, discovering scores of errors on almost every page. Not only does he kill Keynes; he cuts the corpse up into little pieces and stamps each little piece into the earth. The performance is awe-inspiring, masterly, irrefutable — and a little grisly. At times one almost feels sorry for the victim. But, since Keynesian doctrines have created so much misery in the world, any sympathy is misplaced. Hazlitt’s job had to be done."
http://blog.mises.org/archives/005833.asp
Of the book, John Chamberlain wrote:
"Mr. Hazlitt takes up the General Theory line by line and paragraph by paragraph, discovering scores of errors on almost every page. Not only does he kill Keynes; he cuts the corpse up into little pieces and stamps each little piece into the earth. The performance is awe-inspiring, masterly, irrefutable — and a little grisly. At times one almost feels sorry for the victim. But, since Keynesian doctrines have created so much misery in the world, any sympathy is misplaced. Hazlitt’s job had to be done."
It seems like the stupider you are -- e.g. Ezra Klein -- the more likely you are to get a newspaper column on an op-ed page.
I'm guessing this reflects the relative low IQ (among intellectual workers) and character flaws of the editors of these pages.
I'm guessing this reflects the relative low IQ (among intellectual workers) and character flaws of the editors of these pages.
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