Vaikuttaa siltä, että Latvia on vapaana, itsenäinen valtio kiitos liberaali-demokraattisten arvojen

Eräänä synkkänä seikkana latvialais-viranomaiset käännyttivät Regina-laivan, jossa oli kolmannen valtakunnan vainoja paenneita juutalaisia, takaisin Saksaan vuonna 1938, kun Karlis Ulmanis oli vielä valtionpäämiehenä.

"In addition to the ... issue of the Politpārvalde’s internal language free of anti-Semitic expressions, there are ... other, equally important and interesting paths of research ... [including] possible connection between the suppression of the 1938 Betar protests by the Latvian authorities and the latter’s decision – just a few months later and for the first time since 1933 – to ban Jewish refugees from the Third Reich from entering the country, which included sending back to Germany of the refugee ship “Regina” with 77 Jews on board." ( About the “Regina” affair, ks: “Polītiskai Pārvaldes Rīgas rajona priekšniekam. Ziņojums,” lokakuu 15, 1938, LVVA, LVVA, 3235. f., 3. apr., 278. l., 225. lpp. )

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14725886.2024.2382342#d1e522

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Älä kerro sille anonyymille piristesankarille, että Karlis Ulmanisin valtiohallinteinen ekonomia ei vastaa nyky-Latvian vapaamarkkinataloutta. :)

https://manhattan.institute/article/latvias-free-market-success-story

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Anonyymi00004 kirjoitti:

Älä kerro sille anonyymille piristesankarille, että Karlis Ulmanisin valtiohallinteinen ekonomia ei vastaa nyky-Latvian vapaamarkkinataloutta. :)

https://manhattan.institute/article/latvias-free-market-success-story

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Kuten tuossa Manhattan-instituutin artikkelissa käykin ilmi, Latvia nimenomaan toimi päinvastoin kuin keynesiläis-ekonomistit kehottivat.

"During the global financial crisis, Latvia faced a major recession. The definitive account of the Latvian experience has been written by Anders Åslund and Valdis Dombrovskis for the Peterson Institute. During the crisis, Keynesian economists, notably Paul Krugman, encouraged Latvia to devalue its currency. They claimed this would boost exports and generate inflation to bring the economy out of recession. But in reality, devaluing the currency would have made imports (including Russian gas) more expensive and foreign debt repayment more difficult.

"Latvia followed the exact opposite of the Krugman-Keynesian prescription. The nation maintained its currency peg and cut government spending instead of increasing it. The medicine worked: with broad public support, Latvia abolished half of its government agencies and cut the state workforce by 30 percent, according to Åslund and Dombrovskis. Coupled with regulatory and education reform, this downsizing galvanized the private sector and brought the country roaring back."

Anonyymi00015 kirjoitti:

Kuten tuossa Manhattan-instituutin artikkelissa käykin ilmi, Latvia nimenomaan toimi päinvastoin kuin keynesiläis-ekonomistit kehottivat.

"During the global financial crisis, Latvia faced a major recession. The definitive account of the Latvian experience has been written by Anders Åslund and Valdis Dombrovskis for the Peterson Institute. During the crisis, Keynesian economists, notably Paul Krugman, encouraged Latvia to devalue its currency. They claimed this would boost exports and generate inflation to bring the economy out of recession. But in reality, devaluing the currency would have made imports (including Russian gas) more expensive and foreign debt repayment more difficult.

"Latvia followed the exact opposite of the Krugman-Keynesian prescription. The nation maintained its currency peg and cut government spending instead of increasing it. The medicine worked: with broad public support, Latvia abolished half of its government agencies and cut the state workforce by 30 percent, according to Åslund and Dombrovskis. Coupled with regulatory and education reform, this downsizing galvanized the private sector and brought the country roaring back."

Latvian tapauksessa se ei olisi hyödyttänyt lähellekään mitä puhtaampi vapaiden markkinoiden talous, mutta keynesiläinen ekonomia ei ole lähelläkään sosialismia. Keynes sanoi eläessään, että luokkasodassa hän olisi oppineen porvariston puolella. Työläisten "vieraantumista" hän piti vain väliaikaisena ongelmana. Keynesillä oli oma ylioptimistinenkin visionsa, jossa yhteiskunnasta tulisi niin vauras, että rahan jahtaamisessa sen itsensä vuoksi ei olisi enää pointtia. Tästäkin saa etsiä mikroskoopilla samankaltaisuuksia Marxiin, vaikka joitakin sosialisteja se ei ole pysäyttänyt.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/12/05/keynes-keynesian-socialism-biggest-hero-bourgeois-british-capitalist/

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