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To understand the nature of this challenge, you need to realize that although the name of John Maynard Keynes is anathema to many conservatives, it was in fact Keynesian economics that allowed capitalism as a system--as well as belief in the efficacy of free markets--to survive the Great Depression.
The conversation in his poem is so convincingly real yet the poetry so gorgeous in its sounds that I always feel a little shocked to realize how sad the resolution actually is.
As he went from floor to floor removing the signs, did he realize what was going to happen after he'd taken down the final one?
Although we can point to these cases, it is important to realize that for most of the scenarios no difference in power was observed (see Figure 1).
But, if you forgive me for tooting my horn a little, you may remember a little piece I wrote for the New Republic in 1988, called "Paristroika," laying out the uncanny similarities between the situation of the then-Soviet Union and the situation of France on the eve of its 1789 revolution (the pompous Sovietologist Jerry Hough wrote a condescending letter to the editor, scolding me for my ignorance in failing to realize that the Russians would never let things get to the point where Ukraine or Lithuania might secede.