With this work, Professor William H. Hutt produced a magnificent work Austrians would love to claim as one of their own, but which Hutt himself viewed as thoroughly classical in nature. The topic addressed here is Say's Law: the view that macroeconomic activity tends toward stability, which is to say, under a free market, there will be no systemic gluts or shortages absent government intervention.
J.M. Keynes considered the foundation of his own work his refutation of Say's Law, which (according to Hutt) he coined the phrase "supply creates its own demand" to express. Hutt formulates the law, which he says is fundamental to all economic thinking, that "all power to demand is derived from production and supply." Hutt argues that there is no inherent flaw in the market that leads it to provide a deficiency in aggregate demand, contrary to what Keynes claimed.
Hutt's argument is that Say's Law must be completely restored before the root of the Keynesian error can be seen and understood.
This book was originally published in 1974, and appears again in this edition for the first time.
160 pages, paperback 2007