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I forwarded Peter Murmann's original request regarding Schumpeter and
Keynes to the HES list. I thought those interested in this query on Eh.Res
would enjoy the following, submitted by Robert Leeson
<leeson@central.murdoch.edu.au> to HES:
Keynes liked to say outrageous things, and perhaps these two recollections
should not be taken too literally. But according to Joan Robinson (Economic
Philosophy, London: Penguin, 1962, 74), "Keynes himself lacked the scruple
of a scholar. He would pick up any example to illustrate a thesis, and if
one betrayed him he could always find another ... He planned to take up
economic history seriously at the age of seventy".
Keynes also cautioned H. M. Robertson (1983, 412, J. M. Keynes and Cambridge
in the 1920s, South African Journal of Economics 51.3, September: 407-18, )
against "antiquarian pursuits ... When he was old and no longer alert enough
for difficult and exact analysis, he, too, would like to give his time, as a
refuge and diversion from more exacting studies, to take up economic history
and the history of economic thought. But they were, he said, 'too easy'".
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