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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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