Greg Ransom wrote: > There is a good chance that this passage from > _The Fatal Conceit_ was actually written or deeply > rewritten by its editor, William Bartley, who took great > liberties with Hayek's original text. Those unfamiliar with the background for Greg's claim might peek at http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2005_03/ebenstein-deceit.html I'm not a Hayek scholar and cannot comment on Ebenstein's piece, but it includes everything I've heard about this over the years and powerfully makes the key point: authorship of much in The Fatal Conceit is contestable. Whether written by Hayek or Bartley, the fact remains (as Greg is perhaps implicitly acknowledging) that as a piece of Keynes interpretation the passage is inexcusable. Cheers, Alan Isaac