Thanks, Justin Schwartz, for your response - I shall certainly try to get hold of 'The Difference Engine'. But at the risk of seeming pedantic, a capitalist-without-qualification is someone who pursues the accumulation of money capital, regardless of what intervenes between the initial M and the expanded M'. In addition, Keynes was a substantial investor in shares, other securities and real estate - by no means only a 'currency speculator'. He was also a company director - one of the insurance companies as I recall. Hugo Radice
