• explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Nitpick: the USA didn’t adopt Keynesian monetary policy until after the Nixon Shock, as a post hoc rationale. Keynes helped destroy the middle class, not to create it.

    • therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      That’s true, but I’m not talking about monetary policy - I’m referring to post-WW2 state interventionism in the economy to prevent post-WW1-style revolutionary upheaval.