This was from a piece JMK wrote for the London Daily Mail; it appeared on
4 July, 1933. See Don Moggridge's biography, page 577.

Bob


On Sun, June 24, 2012 14:33, Radhika Desai wrote:
> I think I am right in thinking that Keynes said "Mr Roosevelt is
> Magnificently Right!" around the time Roosevelt refused to attend the
> 1933 London Economic Conference. But I cannot find the reference. Could
> someone please help? Best
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> From: Societies for the History of Economics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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> Subject: Re: [SHOE] R: [SHOE] allusion to Pareto
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> These comments to me appear way off base. At the time Auden was writing,
> he was politically engaged as an anti-fascist having a most recent
> passion about the Spanish Civil War. Pareto would not have been an
> economist to him, but rather two other things: first, an excuse for
> governments' doing nothing in the Depression (a la the Harvard Pareto
> Circle) and second as Mussolini's house sociologist and fascist
> apologist. The poem's quoted lines suggest that the poem's speaker saw
> the then present time valuing Pareto over Plato: this hardly represents
> mankind's triumphant evolution. And to make the ironic point clearer, the
> poem's speaker employs Pareto's "acquaintance" and Plato's "intimate". On
> Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 3:48 AM, luigino bruni
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> On the other hand, Pareto's works are full of references to
> literature, poems, and humanities in general.
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> 2012/6/22 Parisi Daniela Fernanda
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>> Passion for literature does not know any limits among knowledge fields.
>>  That is incredible today!!
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>> Oggetto: Re: [SHOE] allusion to Pareto
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>> Auden and Harrod knew one another and their (Oxonian)  social circles
>> somewhat overlapped.
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>> On 21/06/2012 10:42 AM, Paul Dudenhefer wrote:
>> For what it's worth, I was reading the English poet W. H. Auden the
>> other night and was astonished to come across a reference to Pareto. It
>> occurs in Auden's long poem, Letter to Lord Byron (1937):
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>> But if in highbrow circles he would sally
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>> It's just as well to warn him there's no stain on
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>> Picasso, all-in wrestling, or the Ballet.
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>> Sibelius is the man. To get a pain on
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>> Listening to Elgar is a sine qua non.
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>> A second-hand acquaintance of Pareto's
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>> Ranks higher than an intimate of Plato's.
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>> I take it the "he" is Byron, although that's not entirely clear.
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