Is this the best of times for Keynesian economics?

Jonah Goldberg fails to address what is revealing about Niall Ferguson's ad hominem blooper on John Maynard Keynes' sexuality, for which the Harvard historian has given "an unqualified apology," according to the New York Times. The implication of ...

Keynes was a homosexual and had no intention of having children. We are NOT dead in the long run our children are our progeny. This tirade came from Niall Ferguson, the financial historian, Harvard professor and pundit, speaking in the third ...

Speaking at a financial conference earlier this month, Professor Niall Ferguson answered a question about John Maynard Keynes famous statement, In the long run we are all dead. In his response, Professor Ferguson criticized Keynes for caring too ...

John Maynard Keynes was right about the future. But he was wrong about how we'd be spending it. ''In the long run,'' Keynes famously wrote, ''we are all dead.'' I rate that claim true. But it actually has little to do with Keynes' views on the ...

After his Keynesianism-is-gay remarks got him in trouble, Niall Ferguson did the right thing and offered a straightforward, no excuses apology. Unfortunately, it seems that he has reverted to type; sigh. But this does seem to call for an update on a ...

John Maynard Keynes. (David M. Brinley for The Washington Post) Here's an argument I didn't expect to be making today: Yes, gay people care about the future. In fact, judging by their economic behavior, they are unusually future-focused. Confused? ...

Economist John Maynard Keynes once dismissed gold as a barbarous relic, but over the years the precious metal has always been sought out by prospectors and investors with both hoping to make their fortune. Philip is a markets columnist in our

Peter Tatchell ripped into a history professor's "shocking homophobic slur" today against economist John Maynard Keynes. The human rights campaigner said he was glad Niall Ferguson has apologised for his remarks but they had been more what one would ...

I n 2011 Prime Minister Julia Gillard quoted noted economist John Maynard Keynes in defending her carbon tax reversal: ''When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do sir?'' Yesterday she took a political risk in repeating the quote in ...