Rod Hay wrote: >>I have heard Joan Robinson and other Cambridge economists, say many times that Keynes knew very little history of thought.<< Hayek's judgment was that Keynes knew basically nothing of 19th century economic ideas (other than the Marshall he'd picked up as a student). Hayek suggested this was because Keynes so disliked everthing about the 19th century. That seems far fetched, but there you have it. Hayek guessed that he himself knew more of English monetary theory and it's historical development than anyone practicing economics in the 1930s -- Hayek had spent the late 20's working on a book on the history of monetary theory (never published). Greg Ransom