{"id":4608,"date":"2012-10-16T18:13:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=4608"},"modified":"2012-10-16T18:13:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T16:13:40","slug":"keynesian-vicissitudes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/keynesian-vicissitudes\/","title":{"rendered":"Keynesian vicissitudes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-line-id=\"1421ee0246f86fcc0aeaaf3a\">Kundnani, Hans.<\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"1421ee0246f86fcc0aeaaf3a\">The first story I covered as a Berlin correspondent for <em>The Observer<\/em> in 1999 was the resignation of German Social Democrat leader and finance minister Oskar Lafontaine. Lafontaine was seen as a Keynesian and therefore viewed with suspicion by many Anglo-Saxons.\u00a0A few months before his resignation,\u00a0<em>The Sun<\/em>\u00a0even famously called Lafontaine \u201cthe most dangerous man in Europe\u201d.\u00a0Since Reagan and Thatcher, Anglo-Saxons had rejected Keynesianism. By the late nineties, even the Anglo-Saxon centre-left &#8211; New Labour in the UK and the New Democrats in the United States &#8211; seemed to have abandoned the demand-side measures associated with Keynes.\u00a0In fact, Germany seemed to be the last place where anyone (though by no means everyone) believed in Keynes.<\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"1421ee0246f86fcc0aeaaf3a\"><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: <\/strong>Project Syndicate<\/p>\n<p data-line-id=\"1421ee0246f86fcc0aeaaf3a\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/blog\/keynesian-vicissitudes-by-hans-kundnani\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kundnani, Hans. The first story I covered as a Berlin correspondent for The Observer in 1999 was the resignation of German Social Democrat leader and finance minister Oskar Lafontaine. Lafontaine was seen as a Keynesian and therefore viewed with suspicion by many Anglo-Saxons.\u00a0A few months before his resignation,\u00a0The Sun\u00a0even famously called Lafontaine \u201cthe most dangerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39],"tags":[26,25,24],"class_list":["post-4608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-39","tag-26","tag-25","tag-24"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4609,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4608\/revisions\/4609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}