Frases de Robert Higgs

Robert Higgs é um economista e historiador da economia estadunidense que combina os insights da escolha pública, escola austríaca de economia, liberalismo clássico e libertarismo em teoria política e legal e políticas públicas. Seus escritos sobre economia e história econômica têm sido focados nas causas, meios e efeitos do poder e crescimento do governo. Wikipedia  

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“The world probably would have been much better off had macroeconomics never been devised.”

" Is Macroeconomics Really Economics? http://blog.independent.org/2013/08/14/is-macroeconomics-really-economics/," The Beacon (Independent Institute, 14 August 2014).
Contexto: The world probably would have been much better off had macroeconomics never been devised. Although I have in mind Keynesian macroeconomics above all, I include other types of macro models as well. I even include, somewhat reluctantly, the whole quantity theory approach descended from David Hume to the Friedmanites, now known as monetarism. … In short, among its many other deficiencies, as spelled out by Mises and his followers, monetarism’s most fundamental flaw is identical to the most fundamental flaw of Keynesian, Post-Keynesian, New Classical, and other theories advanced by macroeconomists during the past seventy or eighty years: not only does the theory leave out critical variables, but it is too simple, being expressed in huge, all-encompassing aggregates that conceal the real economic action taking place within the economic order.