So Hayek, after all his attacks on Keynes in the 1930s, essentially admitted Keynes was right, at least on these points at any rate.Social Democracy For The 21St Century: A Post Keynesian Perspective
Hayek the Evil Inflationist!
Lord Keynes
Of course, this doesn't imply that Hayek became a Keynesian.
I still believe that we shall not get a functioning economy until wages again become flexible, but I think that we shall have to find different techniques for that purpose. I would no longer maintain, as I did in the early ’30s, that for this reason, and for this reason only, a short period of deflation might be desirable. Today I believe that deflation has no recognisable function whatever, and that there is no justification for supporting or permitting a process of deflation.” (Hayek 1975: 4–5).Hayek still believed that wage
Also Magliulo on “Hayek and the Great Depression of 1929”
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How can you fully trust the intentions of a guy purporting to work for the aggregate, while accepting the title of "Lord?"
It's only a question of how deep beneath screens of Innocent Fraud one buries the actual treason to humanity.
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