Michael Perelman wrote: > I think that it was not all uncommon during the Depression. > > I was once on a department of agriculture taskforce. There was a marked > difference in attitudes between those who experienced the Depression and > those who didn't.
the book KEYNES HAYEK mention some economists who jumped from Hayek's to Keynes' ship. If I remember correctly, they included Kaldor and Lerner. But the author doesn't mention any of the personal or academic details (e.g., Kaldor's empirical work testing Hayek's theory). and: >I just looked at the Chicago Tribune article about the his change of heart. >The surprising thing was that Edward Lazear was a major factor in changing his >mind.< Ed Lazear is -- or was? -- pretty conservative himself. the old saw says that liberals are more likely to become conservative with age than vice-versa (with exceptions like Dahl and Lindblom). I don't know if that can be verified. After all, there are a some people around now who used to call themselves "conservatives" but (under Tea Party influence, etc.) find that what they used to call conservative became much more right-wing, so that they became _de facto_ "liberals." -- Jim Devine / "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." -- Philip K. Dick _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
