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Keynes liked to say outrageous things, and perhaps these two recollections 
should not be taken too literally.  But according to Joan Robinson (Economic 
Philosophy, London: Penguin, 1962, 74), "Keynes himself lacked the scruple 
of a scholar.  He would pick up any example to illustrate a thesis, and if 
one betrayed him he could always find another ... He planned to take up 
economic history seriously at the age of seventy".    
 
Keynes also cautioned H. M. Robertson (1983, 412, J. M. Keynes and Cambridge 
in the 1920s, South African Journal of Economics 51.3, September: 407-18, ) 
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 
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