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1 What s the Main Difference between Keynes and the Classical School? De-Xing Guan September 2008,?,,,,,,,,,,!,, 1,,,,,,,,, : :,,, (The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, ) 12,, 12 : (The State of Long-Term Expectation) 1 (classical economists) (Karl Marx), (classical school), : The classical economists was a name invented by Marx to cover Ricardo and James Mill and their predecessors, I have become accustomed,, to include in the classical school the followers of Ricardo, those, that is to say, who adopted and perfected the theory of the Ricardian economics, including (for example) J. S. Mill, Marshall, Edgeworth, and Prof. Pigou. (p. 3),, Milton Friedman Robert Lucas ( (new classical school)) 1

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