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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
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