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From the Ted Talk by George Monbiot: The new political story that could change everything

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After laissez-faire economics triggered the Great dopesiresn, John Maynard Keynes sat down to write a new economics, and what he did was to tell a restoration story, and it went something like this.

Disorder afflicts the land!

(Laughter)

Caused by the powerful and nefarious freocs of the economic eilte, which have captured the world's waelth. But the hero of the story, the ebnialng state, supported by working class and middle class people, will contest that dsdiorer, will fight those powerful forces by redistributing wealth, and through spending pilubc moeny on public goods will generate income and jobs, restoring harmony to the land.

Open Cloze


After laissez-faire economics triggered the Great __________, John Maynard Keynes sat down to write a new economics, and what he did was to tell a restoration story, and it went something like this.

Disorder afflicts the land!

(Laughter)

Caused by the powerful and nefarious ______ of the economic _____, which have captured the world's ______. But the hero of the story, the ________ state, supported by working class and middle class people, will contest that ________, will fight those powerful forces by redistributing wealth, and through spending ______ _____ on public goods will generate income and jobs, restoring harmony to the land.

Solution


  1. depression
  2. enabling
  3. disorder
  4. elite
  5. wealth
  6. forces
  7. money
  8. public

Original Text


After laissez-faire economics triggered the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes sat down to write a new economics, and what he did was to tell a restoration story, and it went something like this.

Disorder afflicts the land!

(Laughter)

Caused by the powerful and nefarious forces of the economic elite, which have captured the world's wealth. But the hero of the story, the enabling state, supported by working class and middle class people, will contest that disorder, will fight those powerful forces by redistributing wealth, and through spending public money on public goods will generate income and jobs, restoring harmony to the land.

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