Keynesian economics – The belief that the market economy is
naturally unstable and needs government intervention to achieve full employment
and long term economic growth. Started
by John Maynard Keynes in response to the great depression and is still one of the
most popular macroeconomic schools of thought in competition with classical economics.
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