Keynesian economic theory comes from British economist John Maynard Keynes, and arose from his analysis of the Great Depression in the 1930s. The differences between Keynesian theory and classical ...

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It is easy to take potshots at the field of economics today, whether motivated by the financial crisis or the fact that Nobel laureates, such as economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, ...