Claro, por eso Keynes fue el delegado de UK en la conferencia de Bretton Woods.
Fijate si perdieron la guerra que el máximo representante de la escuela keynesiana, Ben Bernanke, fue el encargado de gestionar la anterior crisis.
Bueno, tu a lo tuyo... Yo dejo el tema que hay cosas más importantes que analizar en el presente.
Saludos!
Bernanke dice que es keynesiano.
Pero la verdad es que lo que hizo como presidente de la FED al estallar la crisis, fue bajar los intereses casi a cero y un Quantive Easing de más de un billón europeo de dólares. El mismo ha reconocido que ambas medidas las tomó desde un punto de vista monetarista y no keynesiano:
Bernanke is particularly interested in the economic and political causes of the Great Depression, on which he has published numerous academic journal articles. Before Bernanke's work, the dominant monetarist theory of the Great Depression was Milton Friedman's view that it had been largely caused by the Federal Reserve's having reduced the money supply and has on several occasions argued that one of the biggest mistakes made during the period was to raise interest rates too early.[56] In a speech on Milton Friedman's ninetieth birthday (November 8, 2002), Bernanke said:
"Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton and Anna [Schwartz, Friedman's coauthor]: Regarding the Great Depression, you're right. We did it. We're very sorry. But thanks to you, we won't do it again."[57][58]
Bernanke has cited Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz in his decision to lower interest rates to zero.[59] Anna Schwartz, however, was highly critical of Bernanke and wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times advising Obama against his reappointment as chair of the Federal Reserve.[60] Bernanke focused less on the role of the Federal Reserve and more on the role of private banks and financial institutions.[61]
Bernanke found that the financial disruptions of 1930–33 reduced the efficiency of the credit allocation process; and that the resulting higher cost and reduced availability of credit acted to depress aggregate demand, identifying an effect he called the financial accelerator. When faced with a mild downturn, banks are likely to significantly cut back lending and other risky ventures. This further hurts the economy, creating a vicious cycle and potentially turning a mild recession into a major depression.[62] Economist Brad DeLong, who had previously advocated his own theory for the Great Depression, notes that the global financial crisis of 2008–2009 has raised the pertinence of Bernanke's theory.[63]
In 2002, trinc coverage of concerns about deflation in the business news, Bernanke gave a speech about the topic.[64] In that speech, he mentioned that the government in a fiat money system owns the physical means of creating money and to maintain market liquidity. Control of the money supply implies that the government can always avoid deflation by simply issuing more money. He said "The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost."[64]
He referred to a statement made by Milton Friedman about using a "helicopter drop" of money into the economy to fight deflation. Bernanke's critics have since referred to him as "Helicopter Ben" or to his "helicopter printing press." In a footnote to his speech, Bernanke noted that "people know that inflation erodes the real value of the government's debt and, therefore, that it is in the interest of the government to create some inflation."[64]
For example, while Greenspan publicly supported President Clinton's deficit reduction plan and the Bush tax cuts, Bernanke, when questioned about taxation policy, said that it was none of his business, his exclusive remit being monetary policy, and said that fiscal policy and wider society related issues were what politicians were for and got elected for. But Bernanke has been identified by The Wall Street Journal and a close colleague as a "libertarian-Republican" in the mold of Alan Greenspan.[59]