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Which eminent economists? You get two of them in a room and you get three different opinions. Here's one economics PHd wielding economist refuting the paradox
by oppositelock 9y ago
Which eminent economists? You get two of them in a room and you get three different opinions.
Here's one economics PHd wielding economist refuting the paradox of thrift.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2009/Murphythrift.html http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2009/Murphythrift.ht...
Here's an eminent one refuting it, in case the Nobel prize counts:
https://mises.org/library/hayek-paradox-saving https://mises.org/library/hayek-paradox-saving
Here's my issue with Keynesians and neo-Keynesians. They have zero concept of capital, it's all about cash flow - spending, saving, debt. They stimulate by printing, temper by taxing, etc.
They ignore the effects of such behavior on capital, and end up amplifying the cycles they try to prevent. This ties into monetary policy and deficit spending as well, but that's way too much of a tirade for Hacker News.
- FabHK 9y agoAs I said, it's contentious, and Nobel-price-level economists are wrangling with it. That's why I'd be careful making definite statements about it casually. Note that Hayek wrote nearly a decade before Keynes, nearly a century ago, and Keynes has held up remarkably well in the last decade. The invocation of Say's law strikes me as insufficient to strike down the paradox of thrift.