I can’t recall where I read this, but someone in one of the many interesting things written about the global financial crisis suggested that “Keynes” (of whom we’ve heard more lately than we’ve heard for a long time) might be a useful heuristic to understand what’s been happening rather than a real source of inspiration for policy responses or analyses. With all the calls for a new Bretton Woods, emanating from Gordon Brown (and Kevin Rudd), what appears to have been overlooked is that Keynes’ proposals at Bretton Woods itself were substantially modified to ensure the effective independence of the US currency from the financial architecture it put in place - something that’s explained quite deftly here. So, even at the height of “Keynesianism”, we never really had the rule-bound constraints on capitalist behaviour which the man himself had wanted to see. Similarly, there’s no great novelty in pump priming as a tool of macro-economic management and it’s better understood as a pragmatic mode of state intervention, which has been adopted as a tactic of governance, rather than as a paradigm shift in economic practice. Again, there are significant differences between Keynes’ own ideas and the “neo-Keynesian synthesis”.
However, I think we can now advance a few hypotheses, however tentative, about what’s occurring - in terms of both political economy and the sociology of knowledge.

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