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To: Ohioan
It may be pandemic to many economists.

Thorstein Veblin (theory of "conspicious consumption")was a radical socialist and his affair with the Dean of Business' wife at his Stanford Univ. got him fired.

Me? BA Economics 1972.(ahem)

2 posted on 03/31/2009 10:52:18 AM PDT by llevrok (I would rather die, standing up and fighting, than to be on my knees, begging)
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To: llevrok

Wonder what Frank Davis thought of Keynes? You know, “Uncle Frank.”


3 posted on 03/31/2009 10:56:38 AM PDT by elk ((A Member of the Silent 58)TM)
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To: llevrok
Thorstein Veblin (theory of "conspicious consumption")was a radical socialist and his affair with the Dean of Business' wife at his Stanford Univ. got him fired.

I wouldn't compare a rake having an affair with another man's wife, to a true sociopath who advised his wealthy perverted friends--also Fabian Socialists--where they could find pre-adolescent boys to bugger in third world countries.

But again, the real point of my article is that the same sociopathic tendencies are what drove Keynes' theorizing. He was not trying to save the free Market; rather to destroy it.

6 posted on 03/31/2009 11:04:42 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: llevrok

At least he was straight.

Many economists are obsessed with HG Wells’ utopian ideals.

Most would screw anything that moves.

One of my colleagues with a pregnant wife shows up to class without his wedding ring and gets the students to meet him after class for a drink. And a poke.


9 posted on 03/31/2009 11:31:31 AM PDT by whitedog57
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