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Spotlighting the questionable origins and consequent fallacies of Keynes's economic philosophy - theory that has influenced American fiscal policy since World War II - this study is one of the first to show how economics can break out of its artificial self-containment to become, instead, a workable instrument of human culture and moral purpose.
To achieve this goal, author constructs a new and arresting model of Western culture to which philosophy and all the arts are seen to conform. He identifies the foremost issue of out time as the conflict between the State's attempt to control the social order and culture's effect as society's most powerful integrator. Within this conflict, author finds the elusive middle way between Capitalism's alienating individualism and the Communist and Socialist principles of collectivism.
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