No, I believe, like any other entity in society, that the various institutions that make up the government are all acting in their OWN self interests, even when those interests clash with those of individuals, society at large, and even other arms of the government.

By perpetuating economic fallacies which various governments used as justification for their horrible policies. JM Keynes is probably the man with the singe most influence on the economic policies of today's world and his entire General Theory was debunked line-by-line by a man named Henry Hazlitt in his "Failure of the New Economics" decades ago. Keynesian economics is pure bunk.

Marx and Engels were both shredded by Ludwig von Mises over 75 years ago in his masterpiece, "Socialism: an Economic and Sociological Analysis". Marxism isn't even economics, it's a self-contradictory social theory that can only result in misery when implemented.

Marx, Engels, and John Maynard Keynes were buffoons who have caused untold damage to the world.

Ayn Rand was a novelist and philosopher. I am not very familiar with Leroux.

The rest were actual economists who made real contributions to our understanding of economic theory. Your grouping of them seems arbitrary.

Thanks for the hockey team (Avalanche fan here).