Chapter 24 Freedom
Subtitle of this chapter: Don't look at the advertisement, look at the efficacy
Neoclassical liberalism was able to turn around because by the late sixties and early seventies, "things were changing." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The landmark event was the transformation of the dollar into the dollar, which was the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971. This means that the big brother of the capitalist world, the big brother of the United States, cannot support the exchange of its currency with gold. Overnight, the dollar that everyone loved became the green paper that everyone hated, so much so that at that time, beggars in Paris had a sign on their hats, not dollars.
As for why the dollar turned into a dollar, the reason is that if the United States wants to be a big brother, it has to use its own lining to maintain its own face, but a Vietnam War tore his face to shreds, and at the same time, the lining finally couldn't hold on.
At this time, the whole world, well, in fact, the free world is once again standing at a fork in the road between left and right.
To the left is to go further from Keynesianism, and the old Europe chose to go straight to corporatism (author's note: corporatism is not to be democratically elected, and the government is directly managed by representatives of various social organizations, so it is also called economic fascism), while the cousins of Britain and the United States are likely to adopt a centrally planned economic system.
It's really not a joke! (PS. Limited space, the author will not elaborate, interested students can take a look at the relevant historical materials.) )
Fortunately, at this time, the real capitalist social elite could not sit still. You must know that before World War II, the income of "1%" in the United States accounted for 16% of the total national income, but after the war it fell to 8%, and this value lasted for a full thirty years! Britain is even worse, their "1%" is only a little over 6% in these 30 years. In this kind of miserable situation, no one will be able to sit still.
Their group of bitter people who have lived a hard life for 30 years finally remembered Yuan Yanqian and their miserable people who had been operating for more than 40 years.
Sure enough, feng shui took turns, and at this time neoclassical liberal economists were pleased to find that they could now also create "demand...... Wait, as a layman in economics, it must be very confusing, isn't it a joke that neoclassical liberalism can create demand in a way that even the government doesn't want best?
This is certainly not a joke, but economics. Understand?
For example, the public education system, which indiscriminately instills knowledge, only destroys children's nature, stifles young creativity, specializes in building examination machines, and ultimately determines a person's lifelong achievement with one or two exams. Leaving the future of the country in the hands of the next generation thus cultivated makes people shudder, should this be reformed?
Of course it has to be changed!
Therefore, the school should promote happy education, so that the flowers and bones of the motherland can grow up healthily...... But in case some flowers don't want an easy childhood, but are bent on preparing to be elite, it has nothing to do with public schools that are only responsible for the education of ordinary children, can you go to the market to find cram schools and private schools? Isn't it a natural thing for parents to give more money for their children's future?
Don't you think there's a demand? And so on, as long as you want to get government public services, such as medical care, pension, water, electricity, coal, and even public security, can you hand over to the market?
In this way, it creates a lot of demand and lightens the functions of the government, which is really the best of both worlds.
The two sides of this cooperation, one side is the real political and economic elite, the other is the real intellectual elite, and those "elites" on the Internet in later generations are not worthy of them, well, of course, including our Master Yuan carrying shoes. Since everyone is an elite, they naturally know that "practice is the only criterion for testing truth", so they conducted the first experiment in history with the neoclassical liberal state form.
The experiment began on September 11, 1973 (what a good day) in Chile, a "long (shaped)" country in South America. Military strongman Augusto Pinochet, with the support of the domestic economic elite, American conglomerates, the CIA, and then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, an old friend of the Chinese people, staged a coup d'état that overthrew the democratically elected Allende government. It has to be said that although President Salvador Allende is on the wrong path to socialism, he does have a man of the same blood as Che Guevara. He died in front of the presidential palace.
As soon as they heard the great news of "9/11", the neoclassical liberals could not help but celebrate, and the comrades of the "Chicago School" at the helm of the United States flew to the Chilean capital with their bags (no Baidu, do you know where?). Aircraft. The first thing they did when they arrived in San Diego (not Count William's) was to uproot all the left-wing social movements, which were so unfree that they couldn't even have community health posts in the ghetto.
As soon as you hear about such a violation of freedom as affordable public health care, a real liberal must have a rash on his body.
They then interrupted the nationalization process and privatized public property and social insurance, allowing foreign direct investment and guaranteeing free trade. By the way, private capital was also opened to natural resources, and of course, the inhabitants of those natural resources must not understand the true meaning of freedom, so they had to teach them to be free people again.
However, in order to ensure the state's revenue, the government retains control of all copper mines. This is very important, and the Chilean economy is doing very well thanks to copper mine revenues...... It wasn't until the Latin American debt crisis nine years later that it happened.
Anyway, that was in 1982. Anyway, at that time, the experiment was a complete success, and then it could enter the clinical treatment.
Therefore, under the guidance of neoclassical liberal economists, the British and American governments created a better market environment for corporate tax cuts and deregulation, and on the other hand, of course, they wanted to build a stronger national defense force to counter the evil socialist bloc.
This is Thatcher-Reagan Doctrine.
Not to mention that this set really works, so much so that in the days of Clinton and Blair, they proudly said that we are all neoclassical liberals now!
For the "1%" of these two countries, the share of GNI was finally restored to pre-World War II levels by the end of the twentieth century, doubling in the more than two decades that neoclassical liberalism had become the master.
Of course, this is also the Cotai Strip that my majesty Trump has in mind to MAKE-AMEICA-GREAT-AGAIN.
Yuan Yanqian thinks back to the history of Western economics in the twentieth century, and can only sigh while typing. This was really the same in the twenties when the neoclassical liberal masters were ...... It's similar to joining the Cannon Party after the Anti-Japanese War.
Besides himself, who else can do such a terrible thing?