Rod Hay wrote:
>>I have heard Joan Robinson and other Cambridge economists, say many 
times that Keynes knew very little history of thought.<<


Hayek's judgment was that Keynes knew basically nothing of
19th century economic ideas (other than the Marshall he'd picked
up as a student).  Hayek suggested this was because Keynes so
disliked everthing about the 19th century.  That seems far fetched,
but there you have it.

Hayek guessed that he himself knew more of English monetary theory
and it's historical development than anyone practicing economics
in the 1930s -- Hayek had spent the late 20's working on a book on
the history of monetary theory (never published).  

Greg Ransom