The New Green Economy Is Little More than a Keynesian Spending Scheme

Tags: Keynes, Progressivism, Socialism

08/23/2022 J.R. MacLeod

Advocates of the New Green Deal emphasize new “green jobs” and other benefits, but the NGD is basically a Keynesian scheme in which government allegedly spends us into prosperity.

Original Article: “The New Green Economy Is Little More than a Keynesian Spending Scheme”

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