----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- michael perelman wrote: > > I don't understand the importance of this discussion. If Keynes were > anti-Semetic and Hayek free from such views, would it mean that policies > inspired by Hayek would be superior to those of Keynes? I don't think > so. This is a question that should be addressed to Reder, not us. What motivated him to write the paper in the first place, particularly given the non-existent evidence against Hayek and the highly questionable evidence against Schumpeter, remains, to me at least, an utter mystery. A thinker's status as an anti-Semite, or not, presumably has no necessarily implications for the veracity his or her views on economics, which only deepens the mystery. And, for the record, as a "charter" member of the Hayek-L list, I wish to echo the comments made by Bruce Caldwell and Barkley Rosser about the quality of the conversations on that list, and to disassociate myself (and, to the extent possible, the list as an entity) with whatever "threats" some individual on that list might or might not have made. Steve Horwitz ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]