Commentary The influential and highly quotable 20th-century British economist John Maynard Keynes wrote, “Practical men who believe themselves quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” Keynes’s statement was prophetic in a personal sense, for the ghost of Keynes still haunts the economics profession today. If we substitute the…
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