Brad De Long wrote:
>>Brad De Long wrote:
>>
>>>Why is there this extraordinary--eager--desire to take Keynes's
>>>quote out of context?
>>
>>Remarkable, isn't it? Didn't Hayek offer the charming interpretation
>>that Keynes's queerness made him not care about the future?
>>
>>Doug
>
>I missed th
>Brad De Long wrote:
>
>>Why is there this extraordinary--eager--desire to take Keynes's
>>quote out of context?
>
>Remarkable, isn't it? Didn't Hayek offer the charming interpretation
>that Keynes's queerness made him not care about the future?
>
>Doug
I missed this. Where?
Brad DeLong
Brad asks:
>Why is there this extraordinary--eager--desire to take Keynes's quote out
>of context?
Unfortunately, Brad, quoting out of context is a major indoor sport. Marx
is quoted out of context more than most. Keynes is hardly the only target.
Worse are made-up quotes, as seen in the book
Jim Devine wrote:
>Brad asks:
>>Why is there this extraordinary--eager--desire to take Keynes's
>>quote out of context?
>
>Unfortunately, Brad, quoting out of context is a major indoor sport.
>Marx is quoted out of context more than most. Keynes is hardly the
>only target. Worse are made-up qu
t all?
Don't really see why Keynes should expect to get off scot-free ...
Cheers,
Rob.
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> From: Brad De Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [PEN-L:16162] Re: smartness
> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:11:37 -0800
>
>>Again we see the
Brad De Long wrote:
>Why is there this extraordinary--eager--desire to take Keynes's
>quote out of context?
Remarkable, isn't it? Didn't Hayek offer the charming interpretation
that Keynes's queerness made him not care about the future?
Doug
>Again we see the old Keynes quote out of context. The original sense was
>that if we waited for the economy to work itself out of an depression,
>"in the long run" as was advocated by the right, we would all be dead by
>the time it happened, i.e., it wouldn't happen.
>
>The rest of the article, h
