"I saw no thieves removing anything. But of course Leeson has not been here."
Do tantrums prevent E. Roy recalling two Leeson Duke seminars relating to the Duke archives?
The 'borrowing' obviously refers to material removed before the Hayek archives arrived at Hoover - why extrapolate to the Klein archives?
I have no first-hand information about Max Hartwell but Cubitt reports that Hayek’s impending death opened a “Pandora’s Box of greed and hypocrisy, the betrayal of Hayek by persons he had been fond of and whom he trusted, even by his peers.” With the exception of Herbert Furth all sought to “press their claims and further their own ends ... During [Hartwell’s] first visit he had taken away some Mont Pelerin papers, promising to return them, but had never done so ... Naturally I did not trust him to remove further papers, and did my best to watch over whatever he did ... He continued to make fairly outrageous remarks throughout his stay, such as that Hayek had given factually wrong information ... Embarrassingly he discovered a Mont Pelerin folder that had somehow evaded being sent to the Hoover Institution ... Hartwell asked whether he could take it with him to his hotel, and since he had also enquired about whether he could have a spare key to the office ... I decided to ask Hayek first. ‘Noooo,’ Hayek replied” (2006, 321, 329, 334-5, 356, 358, 372, 237, 207, 236, 150-151).
Bruce reports: "I have heard of no black market for Hayek's things, thriving or otherwise" - and then describes this black market: "Hayek's notes on a meeting with Herbert Hoover and a set of lecture notes are 2 things that were reported for sale a number of years ago."
Reported - or offered to Bruce for purchase?
Bruce knows the location of the 'Austrian-borrowed' material - why has he made no effort to have it returned?
Will Bruce justify the role Austrians played in blocking Klein's promotion?
When Bruce says: "I just don't know what to think" - shouldn't he inform the SHOE list about his response to a question posed to him two summers ago: "Do you agree that Hayek was an academic fraud?"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Caldwell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Sunday, 1 June, 2014 3:28:49 AM
Subject: [SHOE] Fwd: Fwd: [SHOE] Lawrence Klein
As noted below, my colleague at Duke Roy Weintraub asked me to post this
for him to the list.
Bruce
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Fwd: [SHOE] Lawrence Klein
Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 13:52:16 -0400
From: Roy <[log in to unmask]>
To: Bruce J. Caldwell <[log in to unmask]>
Bruce,
I can't post from my iPad, so can you post to SHOE for me, explaining
that I asked you to do so. Thanks.
message:
Leeson's outrages against sound scholarship need to be exposed. On
Klein, see my SSRN posting on MIT and Jewish economists, to appear in
HOPE this December. The history of the U Mich Econ department exists.
Perhaps Leeson might read it. See also No Ivory Tower. As anyone with an
ability to Google Klein would know, Klein's papers are at Duke, and
since I got them here, I saw no thieves removing anything. But of course
Leeson has not been here.
Leeson is simply an irresponsible poseur and provocateur. Anything he
writes needs to be fact-checked. Yes, it really is that bad.
Sent from my iPad
E. Roy Weintraub
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> *Resent-From:* <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> *From:* Bruce Caldwell <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> *Date:* May 31, 2014 12:23:38 PM EDT
> *To:* <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> *Subject:* *Re: [SHOE] Lawrence Klein*
> *Reply-To:* Societies for the History of Economics <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>
> I have kept my silence until now, but this claim is so outrageous on a
> number of levels that I can keep silent no longer.
> There are around 170 boxes in the Hayek archives. Jeremy Shearmur went
> through the entire archives a couple of summers ago and noticed
> nothing missing. I have not visited the archives in the summer for a
> couple of years, for perhaps obvious reasons, but when I was there
> last all seemed intact.
> I have heard of no black market for Hayek's things, thriving or
> otherwise. Hayek's notes on a meeting with Herbert Hoover and a set of
> lecture notes are 2 things that were reported for sale a number of
> years ago.
> The only person who has worked in the archives regularly, indeed
> constantly every summer, is Robert Leeson, who it may be noted manages
> to live in tony Palo Alto each summer on a part time visitor's salary
> and who seems to know a lot about a thriving black market.
> If things are missing, I just don't know what to think.
> Bruce
>
>
>
>
>
> On 5/31/2014 6:24 AM, Robert Leeson wrote:
>> About 20% of the Hayek archives appear to have been 'borrowed' by
>> Austrian "free" market promoters (there is a thriving black market).
>>
>> Some of the material about the Austrian campaign to block Klein's
>> promotion is missing. Did Klein leave archival papers? Any
>> suggestions about other archival sources?
>
>
> --
> Bruce Caldwell
> Research Professor of Economics
> Director, Center for the History of Political Economy
>
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> discover one has often taken days." Edwin Cannan, on editing Smith's
> Wealth of Nations
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