David Laidler's aptly titled _Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution_ (Cambridge 1999) is as good a place as any for showing how widespread was the rejection of Austrian 'policy nihilism' pre-1936. Robin Neill raises the question whether FDR's "brain trusters" were economists. Tugwell and Berle (but not Moley) were trained as economists, as were all the "freshman brain trusters" recruited to the Treasury in 1934 by Jacob Viner. None of these, of course, advocated laissez faire during depression. Roger Sandilands