Re: Keynes the radical

2000-04-26 Thread Rob Schaap
G'day Michael, Whilst I am wholly aware of JMK's insistence that a fight between the bourgeoisie and the great unwashed would find him firmly on the side of the former, I still think there's room for a generous reading of all this. It seems, for instance, wholly consistent with the writings of,

Re: Keynes the radical

2000-04-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Perelman wrote: Hayek, F. A. 1952. "Review of Harrod's Life of J. M. Keynes." Journal of Modern History, 24: 2 (June). 197: Keynes "had not long before coined the phrase of the "euthanasia of the rentier," and in a deliberate to draw him out I k the next

Re: Re: Keynes the radical

2000-04-26 Thread William S. Lear
On Wednesday, April 26, 2000 at 12:54:36 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes: Michael Perelman wrote: Hayek, F. A. 1952. "Review of Harrod's Life of J. M. Keynes." Journal of Modern History, 24: 2 (June). 197: Keynes "had not long before coined the phrase of the "euthanasia of the

Re: Re: Keynes the radical

2000-04-26 Thread Ted Winslow
Doug Henwood quoted Keynes as follows: "We were not aware that civilisation was a thin and precarious crust erected by the personality and will of a very few, and only maintained by rules and conventions skilfully put across and guilefully preserved. We had no respect for traditional

Re: Keynes the radical (fwd)

2000-04-26 Thread md7148
I think, for instance, Habermas's recounting of the significance of French salons and British tea houses (the 'bourgeois public sphere') is important stuff. There, the nascent bourgeoisie articulated and substantiated the great (bourgeois) revolutionary age. Humanity was redefined, and human

Re: Re: Keynes the radical

2000-04-26 Thread Michael Perelman
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Re: Keynes the radical

2000-04-26 Thread Charles Brown
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/26/00 12:54PM "How can I accept a doctrine [Marxism] which sets up as its bible...an obsolete economic textbook which I know to be not only scientifically erroneous but without interest or application for the modern world? How can I adopt a creed which,