Mr Keynes was deposed by an intellectual counter revolution led by Milton Friedman and other economists of the Chicago school.

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Like Mubarak, Shafik is a former Air Force officer with close ties to Egypt's powerful military, "the quintessential candidate of the counter-revolution, " in the words of Khaled Elgindy, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington.

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