09-25

What is Capitalism? Reading & Discussion Group #3

September 25, 2020


Eric Scorsone, Director of the MSUE Center for Local Government Finance and Policy at Michigan State University, led a discussion of Keynesian theory and policy centered around three readings: Joan Robinson, “What has become of the Keynesian Revolution?,” Challenge (Jan./Feb. 1974), Warren Samuels, “In Praise of Joan Robinson:  Economics as Social Control,” Society (Jan./Feb. 1989), and Warren Samuels, “Some Fundamentals of the Economic Role of Government,” Journal of Economic Issues 23 (1989),  427-433.