Economic interventionism is any activity, beyond the basic regulation of fraud, undertaken by a central government in an effort to affect a country's economy.
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By contrast, authors such as John Maynard Keynes, Vladimir Lenin, Paul Baran and Gunnar Myrdal came to be greatly appreciated by the academy and by centers of power for providing theoretical justification for economic intervention, when searching for measures to prop up plutocratic regimes.