On the "purchasing of economists", as Peter Dorman so rightly puts it: there was Alfred Kahn of Cornell who provided the main intellectual justification for airline deregulation. On the other hand, Keynes was a capitalist on his own account (and that of his college at Cambridge) and did pretty well at it... Was Engels, whose capitalist practices were mentioned a day or so ago, actually a successful capitalist? Hugo Radice [EMAIL PROTECTED]