Keynesians

At least the monetarists propose cutting rates and expanding the money supply and the Keynesians promote deficit spending.

His emphasis was on investment as the motor of the economy; but influential US Keynesians airily dismissed this as a peculiarity of Keynes.

It is extraordinary that so many self-declared Keynesians are anxious to promote yet more saving at a time like the present.

The monetarists and Keynesians both argued that it would have been better if this policy had continued into the 1930s.

Again, just as radical Keynesians emerged in the 1930s and afterwards, proponents of more intervention in markets are now emerging.

Keynesians are right that deficits, so far, have been more a symptom than a source of economic distress.

This led to a renewed emphasis on fiscal policy, but on the tax side rather than the spending side, as Keynesians tend to focus.

Keynesians emphasize reducing aggregate demand during economic expansions and increasing demand during recessions to keep inflation stable.

"We are all Keynesians now, " Friedman once said, although he later claimed he was quoted out of context.

Keynesians will argue that Japan's fiscal stimulus was not wrong in principle, but badly implemented and undermined by half-hearted policy.

One set of physicians, the Keynesians, are sure their medicine worked, but the dosage was insufficient.

Now, the Obama administration is evidently worried that it bought economic snake oil from Keynesians like Krugman.

The anti-Keynesians retort that US fiscal policy is already on an unsustainable path.

The Keynesians argued that a lack of private consumption led to the Great Depression.

Too many old-time Keynesians, like Paul Krugman, view this as a problem of inflexible wages and prices.

It was President Richard Nixon who declared that "we are all Keynesians now" .

And modern Keynesians are emphatically not advocates of central planning.

In the 1970s New Classical Macroeconomicschallenged Keynesians to ground their macroeconomic theory in microeconomics.

Though Bob and most of my classmates were ardent Keynesians, I wasn't.

To Keynesians, after all, the historical record is clear.

This may be because economists divided into Keynesians and monetarists in the 1970s.

Keynes and the Keynesians, Friedman and the Chicago School . . . what now?

The anti-Keynesians point out that bond market sell-offs are seldom gradual.

The Keynesians were in retreat.

Aren't you all free-market guys who oppose big-government Keynesians?

The same could easily be said of some of today's latter-day Keynesians.

The Keynesians believe in something called the "multiplier effect. "

Keynesians, such as Mr Krugman, have become uncritical supporters of fiscal stimulus. Purists are vocal opponents.

The Keynesians retort by pointing at 10-year bond yields of around 3 per cent: not much sign of inflation fears there!

Say it loud, say it proud, we're all Keynesians now.

We're not all Keynesians, it turns out.

Keynesians think that just putting dollars in peoples' pockets in order to stimulate consumption is the key to growth.

ASIA'S KEYNESIANS TAKE PRIDE IN PRUDENCE