tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post1226719649915224799..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: The Case for Robert Skidelsky as a LiarRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-41252837835415719912012-01-03T16:47:21.385-05:002012-01-03T16:47:21.385-05:00Dale
If anything GT's comment is accurate. Wh...Dale<br /><br />If anything GT's comment is accurate. What went on at Cambridge among the likes of the "elite" and distinguished included the practice (not unfamiliar to Keynes) to which he obliquely refers. It was utilised in an immoral and distasteful manner to acquire control and influence, to demonstrate compliance, acceptibility and obedience. Some consider it as an extension Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-30570001140965171612011-08-26T09:06:19.431-04:002011-08-26T09:06:19.431-04:00when you have been subjected to years of mainstrea...when you have been subjected to years of mainstream economic though, keynes can be difficult to grast. It is so simple the mind repels it. What keynes understood was uncertainty. Mainstream economics and all of its laws and mathmatical equations cannot predict how man will act. People are not always rational and they make mistakes. In my opinion, he was not advocating totalitarianism. I think Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-29976541620932870692011-08-21T21:38:34.423-04:002011-08-21T21:38:34.423-04:00@GT- I've always tried to keep in mind that th...@GT- I've always tried to keep in mind that the only thing that I am 100% convinced of is my own ignorance. Technocrats fail at that. With that said, I take offense to your Brokeback Mountain dig- it is uncalled for, irrelevant and makes you come across as a narrow-minded bigot. <br /><br />@AliceMaxwell- while I understand your POV, I disagree. Although it is almost undeniable that a cabal Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-14287608799276522122011-08-21T18:32:22.675-04:002011-08-21T18:32:22.675-04:00As Rothbard pointed out in "Keynes, the man&q...As Rothbard pointed out in "Keynes, the man" (http://bit.ly/nLyUXl ), Keynes only ever took one, one-term subject in Economics (a graduate class under Alfred Marshall, who was Keynes' Dad's friend and protector in the best Cambridge 'Brokeback Mountain' tradition).<br /><br />At root, Keynes was a technocrat -which means he was an idiot; he and his ilk are the Kratoklasteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08656600074436057305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-38222938094331802122011-08-21T16:48:08.381-04:002011-08-21T16:48:08.381-04:00In the same year (1936) Keynes (in the preface to ...In the same year (1936) Keynes (in the preface to the German edition of "The General Theory...." praises Nazi economic control in Germany.<br /><br />The truth is (I believe) that Keynes was neither a strict Marxist or National Socialist - but he did believe in the control of society (of civil society) by an elite (hopefully an educated and cultured elite) via control of government and Paul Markshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18376632035812989444noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-55745169375496553832011-08-21T11:56:22.558-04:002011-08-21T11:56:22.558-04:00Bravo @Redmond & @Dale. What a perceptive way...Bravo @Redmond & @Dale. What a perceptive way to view Keynes and his "General(ly WRONG) Theory". It all makes sense now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-44577687248008776762011-08-21T02:42:50.104-04:002011-08-21T02:42:50.104-04:00@Redmond- was there ever any doubt? His "Gene...@Redmond- was there ever any doubt? His "General(ly WRONG) Theory" is the basis for US style corpro-Marxism, and the whole basis of his idea is "government knows best how to spend your money".<br /><br />Keynes was a tool of the elite, seeking to use his incomprehensible theory (if you doubt the "incomprehensible" assertion, try listening to an "Introduction to Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-82427271413609558872011-08-20T23:52:10.554-04:002011-08-20T23:52:10.554-04:00I am becoming more convenced that Keynes was essen...I am becoming more convenced that Keynes was essentially a Marxist.Redmondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04175002542199608208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-37872351550843733112011-08-20T21:51:17.588-04:002011-08-20T21:51:17.588-04:00Robert Skidelsky is defending Keynes, the champion...Robert Skidelsky is defending Keynes, the champion of government intervention in an economy. The same Keynes who said in the German edition of his general theory, that his ideas are best implemented in a totalitarian environment.Do these people ever think of the consequences of their actions on ordinary, average Joes? Have they never seen the film footage of tractors pushing the bodies of PaulTheCabDriverhttp://www.paulstaxi.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-41676613536964252092011-08-20T20:32:03.697-04:002011-08-20T20:32:03.697-04:00Surely, its more a case of researching so many thi...Surely, its more a case of researching so many things about the great man that it was easy to leave things out. The more disagreeable things.Heathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15417060063126394938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-74426520156903352082011-08-20T18:04:46.168-04:002011-08-20T18:04:46.168-04:00The Webbs and Keynes were thrilled to pieces by co...The Webbs and Keynes were thrilled to pieces by communist brutality. It's one of the great no no's but clearly the fawning admiration for thugs on the part of our overrefined elites indicates to what extent the world power equation is determined by mental illness.ricpichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01321511130788764861noreply@blogger.com