The limits of Keynesianism - video
- Written by Dominic Alexander
- Published in Video

Dominic Alexander looks at the limits of Keynesian economics in the context of the current crisis and questions of state spending
Dominic Alexander's book The Limits of Keynesianism is available to purchase here
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Dominic Alexander
Dominic Alexander is a member of Counterfire, for which he is the book review editor. He is a longstanding activist in north London. He is a historian whose work includes the book Saints and Animals in the Middle Ages (2008), a social history of medieval wonder tales, and articles on London’s first revolutionary, William Longbeard, and the revolt of 1196, in Viator 48:3 (2017), and Science and Society 84:3 (July 2020). He is also the author of the Counterfire book, The Limits of Keynesianism (2018).
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