SE RECYCLE
Keynesian
By: Felipe Argote
At some point we have argued that among economists is no consensus, and agreed that although there are differences between the point that it is difficult to pigeonhole us into positions bounded by a border. On the contrary there are something like matrices and shades where we are at some points but we distance ourselves from other
That does not mean at all that there can be no schools of thought where it is possible to place a group economists, but which in turn are compared in some respects from that school. If necessary, and it is, locate the positions of economists, I would say we could set it according to what level of state involvement proposed.
already know that the classical liberal ideology touting laissez faire and the invisible hand. That is zero tolerance for state intervention. Keynesian thinking retrieves the state's position as a driver of demand creation, but the business class by giving the lead in economic decisions. We know that Marxism calls for a qualitative leap that will lead to the elimination of the bourgeoisie and the socialization of the means of production. Then we have the Austrian school, followers of Friedrich von Hayek and Milton Friedman disciple proposed and achieve a neoliberal variant, where the state guarantees that there are no monopolies and respect the laws of the free supply and demand but only so far.
currently neoliberal fundamentalists before the astonished eyes of the world, burned their own books and started a state intervention only comparable to the Marxist revolutions. The U.S. state nationalized the big banks and car manufacturers, and subsidized companies to avoid bankruptcy.
Like neoliberalism in the 80's, which comes to justify actions already taken as the intervention of the international financial institutions, particularly the IMF and World Bank who co-govern virtually indebted countries, now must come one model to justify state intervention, and not to say that the quintessential state is inefficient and deliverables state enterprises to private enterprise, but that the state save the icons of free enterprise and neoliberalism as such. Had to live to see it. Not just the practical argument that partially changed his mind. They even think they should privatize the profits, but now think you have to socialize the losses.
Joseph Stiglitz |
The sector raised the alarm at the trend the crisis of the neoliberal model is led by so-called neo-Keynesian including Baumol, Krugman, Soros, Samuelson, Meier, until recently, Stiglitz and Ben Bernanke, which theoretically stands as neo Keynesian but in practice has become monetarist from his post as president of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Ben Bernanke |
few years later, amid the financial crisis in 2008, the Republican government has invested billions of dollars in shares of banks and private companies, thereby breaking with the neoliberal model that so far have embraced with passion.
In Latin America the government of Nestor Kirchner in Argentina, but Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Venezuela course, where the model has been baptized by Hugo Chavez as XXI Century Socialism.
In Panama, the breakdown of the neoliberal model began in the government of Martin Torrijos, when you start with the plan of selling so-called "competing products", where the state is involved in the economy, then the pharmacy "compete" and "networking opportunities", which copies the very successful initiative developed by the socialist government of Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva in Brazil.
The brand new Panamanian government in 2008 headed by billionaire Ricardo Martinelli deepening the neoliberal model rupture with the plan entitled "One Hundred to the Seventy, called" Universal Fellowship ", among others. This made him the government over state subsidies granted in the country's history. This is an application, although we unconsciously Keynesian recycling by government Arnulf-coalition Democratic Change.
Very few can guess the future development of this new-old Neo Keynesian model was in crisis at the beginning of the eighties of last century and is now reemerging from the ashes, but if there's anything we can be insurance is undoubtedly the neoliberal model is history. Unless otherwise criterion.