Keynesian Chickens Come Home to Roost

Abstract

As we have argued many times in these pages, the monopoly capitalist economy is always in danger of sinking into a state of deep stagnation. The basic reason is that capitalists seek to keep the wages and hence the purchasing power of workers at a minimum, while expanding their capital as rapidly as possible.

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