Stupid 19th-century nostrums like the free market

12/13/2009 Mises Wire Jeffrey A. Tucker

From an obit for Paul Samuelson. Thanks to his work

No student would ever again rest comfortably with the 19th-century nostrum that private markets would cure unemployment without need of government intervention.

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