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and wrote: " flattered himself that he could turn mathematical purblindness into a virtue...It is a pity, because the author certainly writes in a vigorous, somewhat sardonic, style of his own...the author is apt to light his rockets at the wrong end. Thus the audience, instead of being treated to
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stated: "It is, of course, true that Keynes' ideas have been accepted too uncritically by many economists, and Hazlitt's well-written book should go far toward dispelling such unquestioning acceptance" but that Hazlitt failed to recognize that allowing depressions to "'grind themselves out' in the
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referred to it as a "fantastic read, a lucid, lively, obsessive dissection of the most influential and most overrated economics book of this century: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money...A must-read for economists and laymen alike." A review in the
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where wages rates are permitted to fall during a depression. Lerner also criticized Hazlitt for "missing some of the basic elements of the Keynesian analysis" such as failing to distinguish between
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task...Mr. Hazlitt, for his part, has written a technical book which is not obscure—although it is difficult reading" and predicted that Hazlitt will be attacked for his book. In 1959, the
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and highlights the major weaknesses of the ideas that are developed there. This study leads...to a condemnation of Keynesian principles of economic policy."
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is "far from perfect" Hazlitt "does little to improve matters." McKenna stated that Hazlitt failed to clear up the ambiguities in definitions from the
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stated: "Henry Hazlitt has shown the work of John Maynard Keynes to be irresponsible, obscurantist, and often simply silly...No one who reads
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applies only in conditions of unemployment. Furthermore, McKenna criticizes Hazlitt's positions on
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sold well but did not have a large impact on the general public or academia. Economic professor
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Hazlitt embarked on this project because, in his view, although general critiques of Keynes and
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some really illuminating fireworks, is merely smothered by stifling clouds of acrid dust."
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can henceforward take seriously the doctrines associated with the name of Keynes."
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will help change traditional economic theories promulgated by universities. The
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an "important work...The author analyzes in detail different chapters of the
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had been made, no critic had completed a detailed analysis of the work.
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The Keynesian Revolution and Our Empty Economy : We're All Dead
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in its list of "250 Outstanding Books Published in the Past Year."
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called it "a devastating criticism of the Keynesian doctrines."
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McKenna, Joseph P. "Review: The Failure of the New Economics."
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criticized Hazlitt for his assumption of a world with
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
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Index


Henry Hazlitt
Economics
OCLC
264550952
Henry Hazlitt
John Maynard Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Louis Hacker
The New York Times
Sisyphean
New York Times Book Review
Ludwig von Mises
Gene Epstein
New York University Law Review
Labor Law Journal
Challenge
Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia
Journal of Demographic Economics
Kenneth K. Kurihara
Economic Record
demand curves
elasticities
multipliers
American Economic Review
mathematical formulas
aggregation
Post-Keynesian
Abba P. Lerner
full employment

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