Comments on: Rap video on Keynes (and Hayek) http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/rap-video-on-keynes-and-hayek.html where orders emerge Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:06:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/rap-video-on-keynes-and-hayek.html/comment-page-1#comment-186267 Anonymous Sun, 18 Oct 2009 04:09:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6894#comment-186267 And I thought Hayek was famous for winning the Nobel Prize! And the fact that he thought Keynes was far more intelligent than him proves exactly which part of your thesis that he was "nearly impossible to read?" I presume that statement refers to your experience with trying to read exactly which books? Your argument that intelligence was part of Keynes' problem is really astonishing. Is your argument that one must be stupid to understand economics? And I thought Hayek was famous for winning the Nobel Prize! And the fact that he thought Keynes was far more intelligent than him proves exactly which part of your thesis that he was “nearly impossible to read?” I presume that statement refers to your experience with trying to read exactly which books? Your argument that intelligence was part of Keynes’ problem is really astonishing. Is your argument that one must be stupid to understand economics?

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/rap-video-on-keynes-and-hayek.html/comment-page-1#comment-186265 Anonymous Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:57:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6894#comment-186265 If not monetarism, what would you say are the triumphant ideas of this resurgence? If not monetarism, what would you say are the triumphant ideas of this resurgence?

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/rap-video-on-keynes-and-hayek.html/comment-page-1#comment-186262 Anonymous Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:31:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6894#comment-186262 Actually, Hayek is famous for saying that Keynes was far more brilliant and intelligent than Hayek was; which is part of Keynes' problem and is the problem with all the "men of system." Actually, Hayek is famous for saying that Keynes was far more brilliant and intelligent than Hayek was; which is part of Keynes’ problem and is the problem with all the “men of system.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/rap-video-on-keynes-and-hayek.html/comment-page-1#comment-186261 Anonymous Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:30:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6894#comment-186261 No, I am referring to the resurgence of Austrian economics. A well known resurgence. <i>Keynes was anything but insulated.</i> He was extremely isolated in exactly the way that I described. Compare his life to that of the far more cosmopolitan and to the far more broadly read Schumpeter. Keynes remained essentially English and of a particular type of English personality throughout his entire life. No, I am referring to the resurgence of Austrian economics. A well known resurgence.

Keynes was anything but insulated.

He was extremely isolated in exactly the way that I described. Compare his life to that of the far more cosmopolitan and to the far more broadly read Schumpeter. Keynes remained essentially English and of a particular type of English personality throughout his entire life.

]]> By: Anonymous http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/rap-video-on-keynes-and-hayek.html/comment-page-1#comment-186260 Anonymous Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:21:00 +0000 http://cafehayek.com/?p=6894#comment-186260 Keynes was anything but insulated. I will admit that he never really tried to understand the Austrian school. He thought Marshall was enough. You really should try reading Skkidelsky's biography, which you were honest enough to admit that you hadn't read. As for the resurgence of Austrian economics, do you mean in the United States? I assume you are talking about the rise of admiration for Friedman's monetarism. After the events of the last two years, I would say that any such resurgence is in a shambles, but that is exactly the target of Kaldor's book The Scourge of Monetarism, another book that I would recommend to you. Best regards. Keynes was anything but insulated. I will admit that he never really tried to understand the Austrian school. He thought Marshall was enough. You really should try reading Skkidelsky’s biography, which you were honest enough to admit that you hadn’t read. As for the resurgence of Austrian economics, do you mean in the United States? I assume you are talking about the rise of admiration for Friedman’s monetarism. After the events of the last two years, I would say that any such resurgence is in a shambles, but that is exactly the target of Kaldor’s book The Scourge of Monetarism, another book that I would recommend to you.

Best regards.

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