Mises Daily
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Ralph Raico
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[from The Independent Review , v. 13, n. 2, Fall 2008, pp. 165–188.] Keynes and Neomercantilism It is now common practice to rank John Maynard Keynes as one of modern history’s outstanding liberals, perhaps the most recent “great” in the tradition of John Locke, Adam Smith, and Thomas Jefferson. Like these men, it is generally held, Keynes was a