On Nov 18, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Ted Winslow wrote:
> What's your judgment of its treatment of Keynes on "intuition", on
> ethics, on aesthetics, on the philosophy of probability, on
> sexuality, on the capitalist "passions" in general and the "auri
> sacra fames" approach to the "gold standard" in particular, on
> the Bedlamite "remorseless logic" and money crankery of the
> Austrians, on war, on public spending on the arts and education, on
> "the ideal republic of the imagination", etc?
I'm with Keynes on a most of that. I admire lots about him. But he had a few problems too - he was a rabid anti-communist, aside from being an ruling class snob and bigot.
Doug