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[@wildCATcanACT]

The Keynesian model here is generally based on a stimulated economy (of the short run) and when dealing with fiscal policy of government, is built on monetizing debt. So when you have the Keynesian model, it's based on a system of monetized debt through a government that tries pushing up the pendulum. The thing is, pushing the pendulum will result in a back swing.

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@@noninterventionistchad4326 western countries have been struggling to hit inflation targets for decades. We’re only just now having problems with inflation in the US and it’s clearly supply-side inflation

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[@mn2609AA]

Well, sorry that organizing the economic interactions of millions and billions of people changes with every-changing stati of environments(e.g. globalisation) and that there always will be disagreements on how to do it.

[@kubaniski]

Do Austrian Economics next!!

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Awesome Awesome explanation of Keynesian economics - I tried to read the General Theories, but all the equations confused the hell out of me. Thank you!

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A very concise explanation. Thanks for doing it man . Came with different conclusions than you but i guess thats whats its all about! Thanks for putting it out

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[@electionswithmason9920]

I'm in 9th grade and I don't understand the charts but I get what you're saying about how Keynes thinks we need to stimulate demand as well.

[@AB-zc5ff]

We are in a Keynesian Economic "cycle" right now in fact

[@livefreeordieaction]

A few others things to think about... 1.) Where does the Government get the money from to "invest"? (it either has to print it or take it from the economy)... Government has nothing that it first doesn't take) 2.) How does it know which companies, industries, etc are the best to invest in? 3.) Could the idea that the Government will "bail out" or interfere cause a moral hazard? 4.) Does Government policy (economic, monetary, etc) cause the bust that requires a boom?

[@lukerobson5102]

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[@LaureanoLuna]

Yes, the Keynesian aggregate supply curve tends to verticality as the actual output approaches the potential. So, it is a realistic model.

[@nthperson]

The great blindspot in the analysis of market economies by Keynes is the central importance of land markets and the fact that the supply of land is inelastic. In the real world, the price mechanism does not clear the market for land. Quite naturally, owners of land will withhold land from use or sale in anticipation of ever-rising land prices. The only way to remove the potential for owners to profit from hoarding land or "investing" in land for purely speculative gain is to impose an annual tax on land equal to its potential rental value. Only then would land markets respond as does labor and capital goods.

[@myusernameissoobnoxiouslyl1466]

Thank you Keynes for creating at least 90% of America's economic problems

[@geekonomist]

I love how this video purports to demonstrate that there are no absolutes, but we should believe one side or the other once in a while...

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[@Countcho]

you should do austrian economics

[@ThomasJames69420]

Classical: long run, all water will reach its natural level Keynes: but short term there are waves! Short term thinking in both life and economics is dangerous and counterproductive

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[@Fangorn1]

Tell that to the people that will drown in the short term

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[@socctty]

Keynes said "In the long run, we are all dead" somewhat tongue in cheek. He wasn't being pessimistic. He was shining a light on what he thought was an over-emphasis of the idea that the economy would fix itself and stabilize in the long run. So his point was that yes, things would EVENTUALLY get better, but in the meantime there'd be enormous unnecessary suffering.

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[@McMises]

keynes is laughing, "they actually buy into this"

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[@Amphibianman94]

Could you make a video for the Austrian School of economic thought as well?

[@dinadeira]

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[@socctty]

It's one of many models of the economy. The detractors of Keynesian economics are fewer than the proponents, but the detractors tend to be more passionate. There are also a great deal of people who bash "Keynesianism" while endorsing Keynesian ideas, so they pretty much don't know what they're talking about (today's GOP). The end result is that, on the internet at least, you'll get a lot of detractors - many will be Ron Paul fans. In university economics depts, you'll have plenty of supporters.

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[@PrinceMyshkin22]

There was a progressive tax rate that oscillated between 70%-90% on the ultra wealthy, and around 20%-30% on the Middle Class. The beauty was since the government had a steady stream of income, it was able to use those funds to invest in infrastructural projects, GSE's like Fannie and Freddie(which because of those two institutions mortgages were lent at a sustainable rate instead of the 2000's with the ARM and Sub-Prime loans), NASA, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Food Stamps, etc.

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[@AmanKumar07_]

The Keynesian concept of consumption function states that there is a common tendency for people to spend more on consumption when income increases, but not to the same extent as the rise in income because a part of the income is also saved.

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[@charlesbrady3471]

This explanation of the "General Theory..." is an example of using a set of facts, which although individually are with a few exceptions accurate, totally distorts the actual meaning of Keynes analysis of the economy. Classical economic analysis assumes that the economy will operate at full capacity, and can not explain the phenomena of involuntary unemployment. The General Theory explains that it occurs as a function of aggregate savings and investment.

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[@user1153]

Howd it work out ?

[@wickedfifth]

5:44. Prices of what are sticky?

[@nthperson]

There is a fundamental flaw in the explanation of business cycles put forward by Keynes. He accepted the neo-classical discard of the classical treatment of nature (i.e., land) as a distinct factor of production. The apparent reason is that Keynes could not think of land beyond the treatment provided by Ricardo relating to agricultural land. Locations in cities are valued by the square foot, not by the acre where land is more distant to centers of population. Moreover, he failed to see that a high annual tax imposed on the rent of land would provide important incentives for owners of land to bring the land held to its highest, best use or sell to someone who would. Raising revenue from the taxation of land rent would have an important stabilizing impact on the production of goods and services. Taxes on wages, capital goods and commerce have the opposite effect; they impose significant deadweight losses on economic output.

[@fleetcenturion]

Moving the AD to the right (i.e. inflating) only changes the scale of the model. It does nothing to change the reality. It will, however, create false signals on a more micro level, causing more chaos within the system when individuals slowly discover that their medium of exchange is worth less. This is why the depression of 1920 was over in about a year, while the one beginning in 1929 did not fully recover until after WW2.

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[@KTheStruggler]

I always pronounced it key knee zian, so I was a little off haha

[@hughmiller9839]

"In the long run we're all dead." And so is our nation.

[@kroovyandcal]

I don't believe I understood in college the reasons WHY the LRAS curve in vertical, so I just figured that I'd have to merely accept that this model is correct, though seemingly preposterous. Aggregate quantity is always the same no matter what the price of the total?

[@mdarmstrong72]

Both or neither. It depends on what ASSUMPTIONS you make about individuals and how they make decisions. That is why there is a debate about Smith's view, Keynes' view and supply side view and which is better.

[@senoner90]

@baydood510 Austria is a great nation! So many scientists, thinkers, philosophers, musicians in that tiny country, great respect!!

[@jrodriguezquiros]

Sal please explain why the independent variable (price level, P) is depicted on the y axis, whereas the dependent variable (GDP) is depicted on the x axis. Thanks.

[@josephc28]

@youngthinker1 Good points. The Fed also kept interest rates artificially low for several years. This encouraged more borrowing.

[@polka678]

all makes sense, thanks!

[@PunmasterSTP]

Keynesian? More like "Khan made a great video again!" 👍

[@fjwald]

The problem with keynesian is... its VERY SHORT TERM, meaning that it could work as a spark but to continue doing it causes C, B, and D to go out of business while the Government pays A for all of its output. "There is nothing more permanent than a Temporary Government Spending Program"

[@mn2609AA]

Hey, nice video. Something threw me off a little, though. At 3:10 you say that an increase in the total amount of money would move the AD-function to the right, but it should be that it moves the AD-function to the top, since the real GDP would not increase as it is cleared of any changes to the price-index. I hope I didn't mix something up there. :3

[@blazebluebass]

It is a great presentation you are doing there but I have one question. I don't understand why the the demand curve AD is set this way. I understand it as following: ´´-As aggregate demand rises, the price is rising and the real GDP approaches 0´´ ´´-As aggregate demand falls, the price is approaches 0 and the GDP is rising´´ Those two don't make sense to me. Or... wait, didn't you say by price you mean the value of all goods compared to the base year? It would make sense then! It is right?

[@spress15]

@youngthinker1 - No, I wasn't trolling. Just attempting to cast doubt on principle of total "laissez faire" in economics by a parallel application to another sphere of human well-being. I am glad that we choose to use government to control spread of bodily diseases. It would be nice if we could control spread of economic ills. That's a big "IF", because applied economics are thrown off course by human emotional reactions and by unforeseeable circumstances like war and natual disasters.

[@isedairi]

what about the critique of a downward sloping AD curve not being very realistic?

[@Riceater88]

I FINALLY understand what that Ron Paul guy has been talking about! lol

[@Ao__32]

this 12 minute video > 4 hours of lectures.

[@Hawkallica]

Khan should do Austrian Economics!

[@arshadfarook27]

Can u add monetarist approaches Al's?

[@ronpaulrevered]

Now do a video on the Austrian critique of classical and Keynesian aggregate analysis.

[@nicknolte8671]

Nobody cares about those crooks and cranks. Just like no one cares about Ron Paul.

[@ronpaulrevered]

@@nicknolte8671 They should, because Ron Paul and the Austrians are correct in their critiques. What sort of fake reality are you living in? Must not be any inflation from an increase in the money supply without an increase in the production of goods and services where you live; but there probably is.

[@parthibabandyopadhyay171]

So What is actually the time span in case of Keynesian Model? Short run or very short run? In Dornbusch-Fischer-Startz, it is mentioned that the horizontal AS curve is the case of Short run.

[@fl4everhome]

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[@vsh1998]

Why is supply in classical graph perfectly inelastic?

[@SuperVictorLi]

It is a long run aggregate supply , which means all resources are fully utilised . It is the maximum capacity of an economy. All prices are fully flexible and no misconception for firm and input owners

[@SuperVictorLi]

We will not say it is perfectly inelastic but vertical

[@vsh1998]

SuperVictorLi thanks :)

[@sabriath]

The problem people are taught about supply and demand is in 2D space.....but it's a 3D and sometimes a 4D construction. As supply increases, price falls, but as demand increases, price rise....so you have 2 axis of supply and demand, with a third axis of price. However, there is also the account of the vector of future position based on velocity of the production.....meaning, every point in the grid points to another position in the grid to determine the flow of the price over time. For example, if the demand for televisions are 100, and you supply is 90, then you have effectively reduced the future demand down to 10 because you've provided the supply....then you add in the delta of replacements, population growth and other factors to build that back up. The goal of a company is not to match supply and demand, but to maximize the return profit of the cyclical velocity in the fourth dimension.....otherwise, you go bankrupt like Blockbuster (supply with zero demand). As for the consumer, they will have demands for various things at various levels regardless....and they may come as patterns (ice cream has higher demand in summer, for example), but ultimately you use that to determine the velocity vectors. Pricing itself isn't an exact value, as each market has different values to determine, it's more of a multiplication factor against the national mode of purchasability. GDP doesn't come into play until AFTER the production has been consumed....which means it isn't even a qualifier for the graph to determine anything. GDP is just a measure of the nation to meet demand, that's all. As for the depression about people "not wanting to work, but demand was high and prices couldn't rise"....this was because the national mode was reduced, and multiplying a high number against a low number still results in a low. For example, let's say that a normal factory supplying 100 cans against a market demanding 100 cans cyclically, the mode of the nation is at $10, and the multiplying factor at that level is 0.1.....so the can's price is $1. Now imagine the factory no longer able to supply cans, and hungry people's demand now goes to 200, the multiplying factor skyrockets to 5, so you would think that the price of the can is $50....but no.....the national mode, because people were out of work and had no money, was at $0.10.....which put the price at $0.50 for the can. The mode of the economy was extremely low during the depression, which made prices fall even though they were in high demand, because people still couldn't afford it (because having $10 in disposable funds easily buys 10 cans at $1 each.....but having only $0.10 can't even buy you 1 can at $0.50).

[@wikieditspam]

Keynsian policy might not be effectively implementable in a presidential democratic system, politicians won't be elected in the US by saying that they'll put the brakes on the economy until there is a big shift in how many of their constituents think. A lot of people think that economic crashes is entirely the fault of the free market or bankers, which to my knowledge is never the case.

[@nthperson]

During the fall of 2018, Mason Gaffney, emeritus professor of economics at the University of California, was asked by the editors of The Chronicle of Higher Education to offer his perspectives on the current financial crisis, and how economic theory should be taught so that people would have a much better understanding of why it occurred. I think it is worthwhile to repeat the full text of his response: “Yes, the current financial crisis highlights how scholars need to recast the economic theory that they teach. The key concept that is missing today is LAND VALUE. Classical economics divided factors of production into three: land, labor, and capital. Beginning around 1920, scholars conflated land with capital. This left them totally unprepared to cope with or explain the crash of 1929. At this time “macroeconomics”, as we now call it, rose to the fore. For a time it eclipsed “micro-economics”, which had degenerated into the explanation of the allocation of resources among competing ends. Gradually, micro-economics came back to be integrated with macro, but in the process land value almost disappeared. “Scholars have “disappeared” land values in two main ways. One is to conflate them with values of manmade capital, overlooking or trivializing all differences. One obvious fault in this is that interest rates and land rents vary inversely. “The other way is simply to trivialize land values as a quantity. This is based on no respectable quantitative research whatever, and a systematic ignoring of research showing land values to be a major element of wealth. When it comes to the dynamics that lead to crises like that of 2008, land values move in cycles of high amplitude, much higher than the values of reproducible capital. When values are high and rising they lead to great excesses of urban sprawl. These excesses fructify vast new areas around growing cities, resulting in an overhang of “ripening” land that far exceeds possible demands, resulting in a crash. “As to teaching money and banking, few or no texts recognize that expanding banks, by taking land under and around speculative developments, in effect “monetize” those speculative land values. When the wave of land values ebbs, and debtors default, banks have to contract, as they are now. Yet economic theorists, and those statesmen whom they have trained, attend mainly to the froth on the waves, ignoring the basic wave of land value that drives the cycle. “Another and related fault in theory is to ignore the turnover of capital. In a boom of land values, capital goes into investments that pay out slowly. The basis of allocating loans is not marginal productivity, but collateral security, as perceived by bankers who do not distinguish land from capital. The loan turnover of banks slows down, because a bank, no matter how positive its balance sheet, cannot lend much faster than its debtors repay their loans. The result is to slow down new loans and seize up the system, as we see today. “Tax theory is now based on the fallacy that a progressive tax must also be one that suppresses and distorts incentives. This reflects economists ignoring the high concentration of the ownership of land, and the positive incentive effects of taxing land in lieu of work, enterprise, building, and income-creating investing.”

[@AB-zc5ff]

No.. tax theory is not based on the lie that progressive income tax distorts and suppresses incentives.. That's just called putting money where the polticians views are. Also land I see progressively taxed too, so I don't get how you can say that it suppresses incentives when later you say that taxing land has a positive incentive effect

[@nthperson]

@@AB-zc5ff Professor Gaffney wrote extensively on the issues you raise. I will simply note that economics argues that all taxes (except for the taxation of unearned rents) impose dead weight losses on economic output. As for land specifically, every parcel or tract of land has some potential annual rental value. Whatever level of this rental value is not publicly collected provides an imputed (or actual, if land is leased out) income stream to the owner which is capitalized by market forces into a price for land. Because the risk associated with speculating in locations is much lower than the risk of constructing a building and finding tenants to generate cash flow, land is a preferred asset for purely speculative acquisition. Thus, a good deal of land in every city or town is not brought to its highest, best use and is often held vacant for years or even decades.

[@Hereward1044]

Is this "in between" model something of the "laffer curve" in Reaganomics?

[@fleetcenturion]

Since we have more than enough domestically, you're right; there is no need. The "imperialism" stems from needing to expand the market for our worthless money, not our products. To buy oil almost anywhere, a country has to first buy dollars. The profit system has led to exponential leaps in innovation since the dawn of time. The problem is state involvement in picking winners and losers. The market can correct itself easily, whereas the gov't has always been wrong.

[@timeisrunningoutforthebeast]

Thanks

[@blastor8or]

All very good points. Consider this, lets say there is no gov. intervention, totally free market. those who do best in this scenario become the actors you describe as gov. One difference is that you can't vote the rich out of this position.

[@eyeorigins77]

so why do the classical believe that the aggregate supply is vertical?

[@hemantsoni9650]

which software do you use for writing?

[@jchien]

@kubaniski, the economy is very complex and government interventions sometimes work sometimes don't. Laissez faire capitalism sometime works, sometimes it doesn't: 2007-8 financial crisis. The real econmy and the financial econmy work in different manners. You r right that economics is complex but laissez faire does not always produce the best results.

[@fleetcenturion]

um... no. Capacitors store voltage; inductors store current. Batteries supply a constant power source within a circuit. Capacitors build up a charge and discharge all at once.

[@chewie1355]

May 2020 and now the Keynesian economic seems more real

[@fleetcenturion]

Oil is by no means scarce, and the problem is that it IS being controlled, instead of being drilled as fast as possible by every mom & pop who can invest in an oil well. There is no capacitor (I think you mean battery) that can store 1/3 of a day's electricity, especially when night is when most electricity gets used. Batteries also take resources to produce and would have to be continuously replaced from use.