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This will be my last message to this list for  
some time as I shall shortly withdraw from it and 
become email incommunicado for an extended period. 
However, before going allow me to make a few final 
remarks on various matters. 
 
1) Reswitching.  Mark Blaug recently declared that 
there have been no empirical observations of reswitching. 
I must repeat that some references have been put forward 
on this list (I shall refrain from listing them again) that   
claim to have found such cases.  Now, Professor Blaug 
may ultimately consider the claims in these papers to 
be inadequate, insufficient, or just plain incorrect.  But it 
is pretty clear that he had not read them prior to making 
this latest pronouncement.  I would strongly suggest that 
it would behoove him to check out those references before 
he makes such a sweeping public statement on this  
matter again. 
 
     2)  Reder on Hayek.  I basically have said all that I  
have to say on the substance of this matter.  I will agree 
with michael perelman that there appears to be little 
relation between the views on economics of these gentlemen 
and their attitudes regarding anti-Semitism.  Certainly 
I do not see any necessary claim arising that one person's 
relative lack of anti-Semitism makes his views on economics 
superior.  Thus, arguably, there was no reason for publishing 
this paper at all.  I would note the one possible exception that 
pertains to Keynes and his views on interest.  He was 
generally opposed to high interest rates and I believe in a 
few places made remarks that could well be considered 
anti-Semitic and which identified high interest rates with 
Jews in a very stereotypical manner. But, perhaps, this had 
more to do with how he expressed his views than with what 
they actually were. 
 
     3)  Reactions to the Reder on Hayek controversy. 
Yesterday the offlist discussion, which seems to have quieted 
down considerably now, took a very ugly turn.  I believe that 
apologies are probably due all around.   
 
                I think that the appropriate reaction to the 
Reder article by those (who include myself) who are unhappy 
with its treatment of Hayek would be to have a comment  
written that would be submitted to HOPE.  I would hope that the 
HOPE editors would seriously consider such a piece, especially 
if it were written by a serious Hayek scholar (among whom I do 
not include myself) who also has not compromised himself 
by hypocritical and indefensible conduct. 
 
     Let me remind folks that officially on Jan. 1 and unofficially 
but effectively in mid-August I shall be assuming the editorship 
of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (JEBO). 
 
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. 
 
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