The modern age remembered with Keynes, Freud. (Originated from Boston Globe)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: July 29, 1994| Author: Warsh, David | Copyright information 
    In seeking to know what we can reasonably expect from economics and economists, all roads lead back to John Maynard Keynes. Truly, he was the dominant figure of the 20th century, as Adam Smith was of the 18th and Alfred Marshall of the 19th. Languages _ like mathematics, game theory and economic modeling _ may be adopted at any time, but the central task of economics remains what it says about the everyday business of life, not how it says it. 
    With the publication in 1936 of a di...

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