Guy Pearce, Jared Harris, Merab Ninidze to Star in Anthony McCarten’s ‘The Price of Peace’
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Plus ça change… from #thePriceofPeace

“But in the 1940s, Keynesian academics had been put on notice:
There was an effective, organized conservative movement afoot that was willing and able to destroy careers. Whether an economist sank or swam in the postwar waters could depend entirely on his ability to avoid attacks from professional conspiracy theorists.

“The attacks didn't stop. In 1951, a young protégé of Hart named William F. Buckley, Jr., brought the crusade against Keynesian economics to a broad national audience with his first book, God and Man at Yale.”

From #thePriceofPeace TIL The Wilders were right-wingers in the McCarthy days:

“In 1945, Hart hired Rose Wilder Lane, a popular fiction writer who reached hundreds of thousands of homes through serializations in The Saturday Evening Post and helped her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, write the Little House on the Prairie novels. Lane wrote book reviews for Hart and gave the organization a friendly, respectable public face, though her politics were every bit as right-wing as those of her boss. ‘The superstition that all men have a right to vote is a triumph of Old World reasoning,’ she wrote in 1943, arguing that ‘extensions of the
franchise are dangerous to individual liberty.’ ‘Democracy,’ she claimed, "always creates an irresponsible tyrant.’”

From #thePriceofPeace by Zachary D. Carter Apologies if this is old hat. This is my first foray into Keynes. I highly recommend Carter’s book.

“Keynes' analysis of the investment process thus paralleled his understanding of democracy. Uncertainty about the future —not irrationality or stupidity--makes crowds prone to calamity in both finance and politics, particularly under conditions of significant anxiety. Markets are no more self-correcting than a mob hailing a demagogue. To work at all, they must be structured, guided, and managed. They might even have to be replaced. In A Treatise on Money, Keynes had argued that money was inherently political— the creation of the state. He was now extending that observation to markets themselves.”