Keynes: la libre competencia

Una frase  irónica del tipo "Reductio ad Adbsurdum"

‘Suppose that by the working of natural laws individuals pursuing their own interests with enlightenment in conditions of freedom always tend to promote the general interest at the same time! Our philosophical difficulties are resolved… The political philosopher could retire in favour of the businessman –for the latter could always attain the philosopher’s summum bonum by just pursuing his own private profit.’ 

‘The principle of the survival of the fittest could be regarded as a vast generalization of the Ricardian economics. Socialist interferences became, in the light of this grander synthesis, not merely inexpedient but impious, as calculated to retard the onward movement of the mighty process by which we ourselves had risen like Aphrodite from the primeval slime.’ 

Skidelsky resume la posición anti liberal de Keynes como, 

"Keynes then develops what is essentially a public-goods argument for state intervention. Each age must ‘distinguish afresh the Agenda of government from the non-Agenda’. Services which are technically social must be separated from those which are technically individual, the most important new items on the agenda being control of currency and credit; dissemination of information to remedy the evils arising from ‘risk, uncertainty, and ignorance’; collective decision concerning the allocation of capital between home and foreign investment; and a population policy paying attention to quality as well as numbers."

Obsérvese que se refiere a algunas parcelas de la economía, no todas. Dinero, crédito, diseminación de la información, para elidir males como riesgo, incertidumbre e ignorancia.