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Responding to Sam Bostaph: 
 
According to Joan Robinson (Economic Philosophy London: Penguin 1962: 74), Keynes planned
to take up economic history at the age of seventy. Keynes (somewhat tongue in cheek,
perhaps) cautioned H. M. Robertson (J. M. Keynes and Cambridge in the 1920s South African
Journal of Economics 51.3, September: 407-18 1983: 412) 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'".
 
Robert Leeson 
Murdoch University 
 
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