
The Keynesian Counterrevolution
What is it about capitalism that makes Keynesianism a horizon even would-be revolutionaries have trouble seeing past?
Mike Beggs is an editor at Jacobin and a lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney.
What is it about capitalism that makes Keynesianism a horizon even would-be revolutionaries have trouble seeing past?
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