Disorder Afflicts the Land! Caused by the powerful and nefarious forces of the economic elite, which have captured the world's wealth.
The hero of the story, the enabling state, supported by working class and middle class people, will contest that disorder, will fight those powerful forces by redistributing wealth, and through spending public money on public goods will generate income and jobs, restoring harmony to the land.
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)
The new political story that could change everything (2019 xlnt)
The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes (2020)
“It is easier to ship recipes than cakes and biscuits.”
“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”
2021-09-27 FJB Call (California! Booo!)
2022-02-17 Group Discussion About The Week, Part 2
2022-04-28 OGM Check-in Call
2022-05-27 Micah/Jerry Co-Writing
2023-10-12 OGM Call: Narrative and Storytelling
Among the very few values that both the left and the right share are belonging and community.
Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes (2011)
Commanding Heights - The Battle for the World Economy
Despair is a state we fall into when our imagination fails.
Disorder afflicts the land!
Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren (1930 essay)
Essays in Persuasion (1931)
Frank P. Ramsey (died at 26)
How to See into the Future
I would rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong.
James K. Galbraith: The Final Death (and Next Life) of Maynard Keynes
Keynes had eagerly collected Newton’s occult manuscripts...
Keynes Opposed the Tough Reparations Imposed on Germany After WWI
Keynes Point (where tech brings leisure)
Keynes Saw Automation Coming, but Thought We'd Work Fewer Hours
Keynes Was an Excellent Investor
Markets Can Remain Irrational Longer than an Investor Can Remain Solvent
Monbiot's Four Observations
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
The greatness of Keynes ...
The Man Who Predicted Nazi Germany
The Man Who Saved Capitalism from Itself
The only Thing that Can Replace a Story Is a Story
The Woman Who Shattered the Myth of the Free Market
The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers [7th Edition] (1953)
We are a society of altruists. But we are governed by psychopaths.
We need to build a community based on bridging networks, not bonding networks.
When we have no story that explains the present and describes the future, hope evaporates.
You can see a lot of politics as a search for belonging.
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