On Jun 21, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Ted Winslow wrote:
> Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> On Jun 21, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Chris Brooke wrote:
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>>> E.g., Keynes' verdict on "The Road to Serfdom" was not at all the one quoted
>>> at the start of the essay, but rather that, "Morally and philosophically I
>>> find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in
>>> agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement."
>>
>> Yes. The quote is Keynes's reaction to Hayek's Prices and Production. It's in his collected works - I don't think it was marginalia.
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> The quote is in fact his reaction to "The Road to Serfdom." His reaction to "Prices and Production" was rather different.
>
> "The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles
> I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with
> page 45, and yet it remains a book of some interest which is likely to leave
> its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how,
> starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in Bedlam."
> (vol. XII, p. 252)
Uh, yeah, Ted. The misattributed quote in the piece we're referring to was the "Bedlam" one.
Doug