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So the post-World War II academic movement referred to as Neoclassical Synthesis, absorbing the macroeconomic thought of John Maynard Keynes, resulted in the theories and models termed—

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Neo-Keynesian economics

That theory was developed by John Hicks and Maurice Allais and popularized by the mathematical economist Paul Samuelson

The process—

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Began soon after the publication of Keynes' general theory, with the ISLM model, investment—

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Pretend you've got a clue

If I have to listen to this pap

This dull and dreary crap

Then so do you

And it's not like I can blame them if they leave the room

The mind departs, just up and drifts away

It's natural to flee from this oppressive gloom

This bogus intellectual display

The only thing that changes is the day

I'm sorry, where was I?

Hicks, of course

John Hicks continued with adaptations of the supply and demand model—

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You sleepy shitheads

This world is spinning fast

You may think you have it sussed

That life is good and just

But it won't last

Blink twice and all your laughter

And your happy ever after

Flies right past

God, try to focus, Walter, on the points at hand

This course that you have taught for twenty years

Don't think about the day you bought her wedding band

Or the trip that you both made once to Algiers

Or the way the time between just disappears

A specific example of this is the consumer model of individual demand

That's it

See you next week

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The day's not over yet

No time for remembrance or regret