Peter St. Onge
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In other words, will will he love only me or will I have to share him with other women?
All right.
So you can take this supply and demand.
You can apply it to lots of different things that involve choice.
And, you know, you sort of.
go through that all the way from Aristotle through Turjo and Bastiat and all the way through, you know, Rothbard and today, you've got a really, really beautiful way to understand not just how the world works, but then these sort of emergent features that come out of it, like like inflation and jobs and productivity growth, GDP growth and things like that.
All right.
So that is the sort of classical Austrian economics.
Keynesian economics is this freak that was bolted on top.
So there's a guy named John Maynard Keynes.
He was not an economist.
He wasn't trained as an economist.
His dad literally bought him a professorship at Oxford or Cambridge.
It was Cambridge, which is what one did back then.
He he he.
like he was a layabout, the family was rich, the father was like, eh, you know, you get amount to anything.
But Keynes was willing to be a horror for the point of view that government can make it better, right?
So classical economics generally felt that people are the best,
judges of what's best for themselves.
So, you know, you should let people marry who they want.