Absolutely.
Have a look at Robert and Edward Skidelsky's recent book , How Muvh is
Enough? to be reminded what a renaissance man Keyes was....
also Thatcher's former Policy Unit chief, Ferdinand Mount, Mind the
Gap. The New Class Divide......not riveting reading, but interesting
because of the author (if he thinks this, then.....!)
Ok, these range wider than monetary policy. But they show us what the
'monetarist society' has become.
At the risk of being sexist, Mervyn King seems to me to be the 'Old
Woman' of Threadneedle Street! ( ....the Bank's nickname
was....geddit.....?)
On 02/10/2012, Oliver,AJ <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> This blurb from the Director of the Bank of England is quite interesting. He
> asks if we need an alternative to monetary policy. Well, there is always
> Keynesianism...
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