Thursday, January 7, 2010

A good essay on primitive Keynes

From the independent Institute. The main point here is that price is not a level, it is a distribution. If that distribution of prices is distorted, then Keynes aggregate macro does not work. Stimulus will only make the prices more distorted because the constrained resource is actually now the unused resource. So if we suffer an oil shortage, Keynes would have us burn more oil.

HT peter Gordon

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