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Nixon was a keynesian and a statist. I'm not calling him a statist becuase of what he did in watergate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-66
by paddy_m 18y ago
Nixon was a keynesian and a statist. I'm not calling him a statist becuase of what he did in watergate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-66 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-66
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-76 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-76 (moved us off of the gold standard, giving the government complete control over our currency)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-Hetzel2008_p92-72 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-Hetzel2... (implemented price controls on agricultural products)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-.2770s_180-137 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-.2770s_... (established the EPA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-pbs2-69 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#cite_note-pbs2-69 (established OSHA)
Nixon was far from what I or most people would consider a classical.