Interesting, this reminds me of Emmanuel Todd interview here:

http://cyrano.blog.lemonde.fr/2009/07/12/entretien-avec-emmanuel-todd-protectionnisme-et-democratie/

It's in french, a quote below.

The relevant point is that Todd did get Keynesian economics education in
1971 like most of other students of his age, but he then left economics
to work on something else whereas his friends stayed on economics and so
actively "unlearned" Keynes insights during 30 years up to now. So
facing the current crisis Todd had a much better view than his fellow
students on the situation.

Sincerely,

Laurent

<<
Mais aujourd’hui, je dirai que c’est plus grave. Les types de ma
génération, et c’est là que cela devient vraiment fascinant d’un point
de vue intellectuel, ont reçu la même éducation que moi. Ils ont fait
Sciences Po comme moi. Ce qui prédominait l’enseignement qu’ont reçu ces
économistes, c’était le keynésianisme et l’analyse des problèmes de
demande. Donc, ils ont appris cela. Mais on a l’impression qu’ils ont
passé toute leur vie de chercheurs ou de praticiens à détruire ou à
oublier ce qu’ils avaient appris. Moi, je ne suis pas économiste, mais
je dois poser modestement la question de la lucidité. Certains jours, je
me dis qu’en fait, c’est très simple. Ce qui m’a permis, lorsque je me
suis remis à l’économie, de diagnostiquer tout de suite la question de
l’insuffisance de la demande, c’est que, comme les personnages de contes
de fée, je m’étais, sur le plan économique, endormi en 1971 quand j’ai
terminé Sciences Po, et je me suis donc réveillé et j’ai recommencé à
faire de l’économie avec ce que j’avais dans le cerveau et qui datais de
1971. Et c’était le bon truc !

KB : Il faudrait donc revenir à l’avant Milton Friedman…

ET : Voilà, je n’avais pas passé 30 ans à désapprendre les choses
vraiment utiles. C’est vraiment fascinant comme phénomène ! P
>>


On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 07:21 -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
> the younger members of the official economics profession was educated
> -- partly due to Samuelson's influence -- to think of the world
> totally in terms of equilibrium (at full employment!) and is so at a
> loss.
> 
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:38 AM, michael a. lebowitz<[email protected]> wrote:
> >
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> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: Who are the bright young radical economists?
> > Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:53:01 -0500
> > From: Cy Gonick <[email protected]>
> > To: sam gindin <[email protected]>, Leo Panitch
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> > shniad <[email protected]>, greg albo <[email protected]>
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> > I see where Adbusters devotes its current issue to attacking the economics
> > profession.  Then it has a large part of the issue devoted to "Mavericks".
> > Guess who they are?  All Keynesians -- all over 70.  The only interesting
> > one, believe it or not was Paul Samuelson, who says that the economic
> > recovery will not happen until 2012 and maybe not until 2014.  Mind you
> > that's all he said that is interesting.
> >
> > So I ask myself, if we were to pull together the radical economists, who are
> > they -- beyond our few political economists?  Do they exist?  Who did
> > Adbusters miss?
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