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[log in to unmask] (J.I. Vorst)
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Fri Dec 22 12:53:47 2006
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Steven Kates writes:  
>  
>I don't have a paper but there is an extremely interesting discussion  
>in Hayek's _The Fatal Conceit_ (Routledge 1988, pp 57-58) in which  
>Keynes's statement is shown to be not only economically destructive as a  
>basis for policy but is also deeply amoral, being "a characteristic  
>manifestation of an unwillingness to recognise that morals are concerned  
>with effects in the long run."  
  
I consider the  use of the word "shown" inappropriate, as it has the   
pretension of relating to objective truth; "argued", "suggested",   
"intimated" or "maintained" would have reflected the implicit   
subjectivity of of the assessment.  
  
Jesse Vorst  

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