HIST 240 Lecture Notes - Autarky, John Maynard Keynes, Money Supply
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October 7 lecture the glory age of western capitalism 1940s-1970s. Lecture a the great depression and public policy. ^^ all of these are in the notes from last week. Don"t write the intellectual history of laissez faire. Understanding state intervention and talking about state intervention. Mention the philosophical switch, but not the entire thing at all: three hours long, one main question, anything that shows you"ve read the book. Or did he want to nationalize industry a la france or italy and have the state build consumer goods: no; just reflate, prime the pump, then step back, denounced the versailles peace conference. 1936 book, theory of unemployment was statement of everything he was forming in his mind. Ideas were only put into practice in sweden, and lesser in the us and canada around 1938. if governments weren"t willing to take his prescriptions in 1936, by the time they entered the war they did so without choice.
