POSTWAR ECONOMIC THEORIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180024-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: May 3, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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Title; Yostua=no=io ~eories
Author: Li Cheng_uen (~~ y
Publisher; San Lien Shu-*.ien, pei nr ng~ ,'i..r i~ v
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Issuii:~ Authority; None indicated
17o Pages; ?~2
Area .,r r....cr-
' "a?~ Utl, Great Eritain
Sub,j~cts Covered; Conflicting schools of postwar ecoacmic thought, as cham-
pioned by the exponents of Laissez faire, F. A. Hayek, and Benjamin
Anderson, versus the advocates of planned economy and government in-
tervention, as expounde~2 Ly J. M. Keynes, Alvin Hansen, and W. H.
Beveridge
Review; A Marxist critique of the so_called -lashing er~nomic theories prevail-
ing in capitalist US end Creat Britain, One section of book cont8lns
three short essays outlining the theories of Benjamin xr,derson, F. A.
Hayek, and John Robinson; and another section is devoted to Keynes'
work on "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money."
Author deals with the economic theories ir. a superficial usy and con-
ciudes that both schools have one thing in common __ oppositton to
Communism and the salvaging of capitalism.
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