One would begin with Joan Robinson, then proceed up through Axel Leijonhufvud and Robert Clower, and then to the French Regulationist school. Robert Lucas more or less agrees with this point: "I think that in writing the General Theory, Keynes was viewing himself as a spokesman for a discredited profession. . . . He was writing in a situation where people are ready to throw in the towel on capitalism and liberal democracy and go with fascism or corporatism, protectionism, socialist planning. . . . [Keynes] was a political activist from beginning to end. What he was concerned about when he wrote the General Theory was convincing people there was a way to deal with the Depression that was forceful and effective but didn't involve scrapping the capitalist system" ("My Keynesian Education," p.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 2048