Reading Response 2: John Maynard Keynes: The End of Laissez-Faire

Reading Response 2: John Maynard Keynes: The End of Laissez-Faire: In about 600 words answer the following questions.

Keynes’s “The End of Laissez-Faire” is an argument that history had led early-twentieth-century Britain—and America—to a false belief about how the economy worked. Write an essay that:

1. Outlines Keynes’s argument
2. Lays out what conclusions about economic policy would follow if Keynes’s argument were true
3. Brings in knowledge you have from other sources about whether Keynes’s argument seems to you to be well-found or not
4. Proposes some further investigation you (or we, the human species here in the world) could undertake to determine whether or not Keynes’s overarching argument is likely to be true