On Nov 19, 2009, at 4:43 AM, Mike Beggs wrote:
> It also gives a sense of how thin academic and professional economics
> was at the time. Keynes got his job at Cambridge, and the editorship
> of the Economic Journal, having hardly studied economics at all,
> mainly because his Dad was mates with Marshall, although he was
> clearly very bright and had a lot of expertise in stats.
>
> Genius economist though.
So maybe the thinness had a good side? The modern fraternity - it's almost all male at the top, isn't it? - would never have allowed Keynes to rise to this level of prominence. Or he would have been forced to go through an orthodox program, which might have driven him into art history.
Doug