<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3612.1700"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Jay,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT><FONT size=2>      The main point of the article is in fact to lay out how widespread</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>and deeply entrenched such "casual anti-Semitism" was among the</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>"educated elites" of the period prior to 1950.  He was using these</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>three economists as examples of that elite, although his case is</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>clearly the strongest with regard to Keynes and weakest with regard</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>to Hayek.  He also then provided a set of arguments as to why these</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>attitudes among that category of people changed after 1950, including</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>knowledge of the extent of the Holocaust and the needs of US universities</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>that were now globally dominant to emphasize technical competence.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Barkley Rosser</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original Message-----</B><BR><B>From: </B><A href="mailto:JayHecht@aol.com">JayHecht@aol.com</A> <<A href="mailto:JayHecht@aol.com">JayHecht@aol.com</A>><BR><B>To: </B><A href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> <<A href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A>><BR><B>Date: </B>Monday, February 19, 2001 1:14 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>Re: Anti-Semitism of Certain Famous Economists<BR><BR></DIV></FONT><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>In a message dated 2/18/01 5:03:26 PM Central Standard Time, <A href="mailto:rosserjb@jmu.edu">rosserjb@jmu.edu</A> <BR>writes: <BR><BR><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px" TYPE = CITE>. <BR>     I think that many on these lists might find the issues <BR>raised in this article of interest, even if ultimately the <BR>article is to be dismissed as totally misguided hogwash. <BR>I would not be raising this if I did not think that at least some <BR>of its arguments are not totally unreasonable</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Barkley, <BR><BR>I found the quotes from Keynes a little more credible.  But I'm not sure how <BR>far Reder can push his claims.  Was Keynes a Nazi?  Of course not.  Was his <BR>insights tainted by his anti-semitism?  I don't think so.  Query most <BR>assimilated Jews who went to places like Cambridge, Oxford, or even Cornell <BR>(like my dad) in the 1940s and other universities, and anti-semitism was <BR>pretty much something you had to deal with. <BR><BR>I found the article interesting, but I'm not sure, at the end of day, what we <BR>gain from knowing that "famous" economists are prejudiced assholes. <BR><BR>Jason </FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>