==================== HES POSTING ===================== Keynes liked to say outrageous things, and perhaps these two recollections should not be taken too literally. But according to Joan Robinson (Economic Philosophy, London: Penguin, 1962, 74), "Keynes himself lacked the scruple of a scholar. He would pick up any example to illustrate a thesis, and if one betrayed him he could always find another ... He planned to take up economic history seriously at the age of seventy". Keynes also cautioned H. M. Robertson (1983, 412, J. M. Keynes and Cambridge in the 1920s, South African Journal of Economics 51.3, September: 407-18, ) against "antiquarian pursuits ... When he was old and no longer alert enough for difficult and exact analysis, he, too, would like to give his time, as a refuge and diversion from more exacting studies, to take up economic history and the history of economic thought. But they were, he said, 'too easy'". Robert Leeson [log in to unmask] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]