It’s not often (actually, only once) that I share a video lasting nearly two hours. But this video – revolving around the intellectualrivalry between pro-market Hayek and pro-intervention Keynes – is an excellent summary of 20th-century economic policy.
We learn about the growth of socialism and communism during and after World War I.
This then led economists from the Austrian school – including Hayek – to explain why that approach (genuine socialism, meaning government ownership, central planning, and price controls) was doomed to failure.
But other forms of intervention and redistribution gained new adherents, especially when Keynes argued that the Great Depression was the fault of capitalism (for what it’s worth, I think the video fails to include analysis on how the New Deal actually lengthened and deepened the downturn).
Unfortunately, the Keynesian narrative dominated and the video informs us that the people of the…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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