Comments on: The Mysterious Mr. Keynes

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:35:50 +0000

Keynes, like Marx, should certainly be studied. Not as theory, but rather as important figures in economic history.

geoff tily — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:28:59 +0000

Worstall’s contribution is not helpful, as the responses on his own blog indicate. Surely Ann is suggesting that what is taught as Keynes

(Keynesianism) bears very little resemblance to Keynes’s actual theories and writings. And that this is true even in Cambridge. Who could

disagree?

Certainly the writings of Dasgupta, Dornbusch and Mankiw may offer a useful guide to ‘Keynesianism’, but they offer no guide to

Keynes. Mankiw has even issued a disclaimer: ‘If New Keynesian economics is not a true representation of Keynes’s views, then so much the worse

for Keynes’ (‘The Reincarnation of Keynesian Economics’, European
Economic Review, 36 (2–3), April 1992, p. 560).

Yet it is to Keynes not

Mankiw that policymakers are now turning.

Iain Stephenson — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:05:22 +0000

You are joking surely? How can you study economics and not look at Keynes?

Maybe we should

get his books and burn them just to be sure that his crazy ideas are never read again?!

Byrus Gray — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:40:48 +0000

That is the best news I have heard in a long time. Viva von Mises! Viva Hayek!

-From the ravings of the Psychomancer

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Joseph Caruana — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:42:44 +0000

Shocking for me.

In my country all that happens happens mainly through government

intervention in any way imaginable.

Therefore Keynesian economics is one of the core types of economics which we are presented with as

introduction to the subject.
But now that I dwell furthur into it. The support of keynesian system of economics is falling and I wonder whether

the current crisis will get my teachers to rethink their monetarist/noninterventionist lecturing

Sabine K McNeill — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:07:26 +0000

Just as the student at the LSE who was told she couldn’t write her PhD on the money supply, Ann.

The reason? “That’s not capitalism!”

In other words, that’s the difference between myths and mystification of economists v de-

mystfication of self-taught thinkers!

Sighingly yours,
Sabine
Organiser, Forum for Stable Currencies
http://tinyurl.com/666rwd