"If liberalism's core doctrine is that, given institutional adherence to the rights of life, liberty, and property, civil society can be counted on by and large to run itself, and if the showcase example in liberalism's brief is the undirected market economy's capacity to function satisfactorily, then the "Keynesian Revolution" signaled the abandonment of liberalism."
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Ralph Raico, "Was Keynes a Liberal?," The Independent Review 13, no. 2 (Fall 2008), p. 196.
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