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Re: HES: QUERY -- We are all Keynesians/Monetarists now
posted by Forstater, Mathew on July 19, 2002


Well, this is getting interesting. First, I located the exact phrase in question -- in quotes, but with no attribution (indicating general use) -- in a 1957 article (AER, May) by Dudley Dillard (entitled "The Influence of Keynesian Economics in Contemporary Thought"). But now I have also located the phrase in a 1946 article by Herbert Heaton entitled "Other Wests Than Ours" in the Journal of Economic History, Vol. 6, supplement, May 1946, p. 60. Full sentence:

"We are all Keynesians now, all post-Beveridge."

The search goes on! (We may finally trace it to Keynes himself--so different than Marx saying he was not a Marxist!).

Mat Forstater