"Keynesian economics is really just models and numbers and how things would work in a laboratory, not how things work in the real world. The beauty of Austrian economics is [that] it studies how things work in the real world. Economics is not a predictive science, okay? You can't say, "If we do this, this is what's gonna happen." It is a descriptive science; in other words, it describes what's going on. Austrian economics says the economy runs itself, and all that we're trying to do is understand how the economy really works."
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Glenn Jacobs
Glenn Jacobs (b. 26 April 1967) is an American politician. He was elected mayor of Knox County, Tennessee in 2018 as a Republican. He was a libertarian, co-founding the Tennessee Liberty Alliance.
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