Re: RE: Re: A Krugman Klassic

[Brad DeLong <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I believe Paul Davidson, who regardless of your theoretical leanings must be
> considered a foremost authority on Keynes, was excluded from the
> JEP's symposium
> on Keynesian Economics.

Cheap shots.

*None* of the people writing in the symposium--neither Tobin, Mankiw,
Romer, Greenwald, Stiglitz, nor King--were authorities of any sort,
foremost or not, on John Maynard Keynes. Moreover, Davidson had been
in the journal two years before. Unless we think that someone is
*the* very best person to write on a topic, and that that topic *has*
to be in the symposium, we try not to have the same stable of authors
over and over again. I presume that one of Stiglitz's aim in putting
together the symposium was to avoid yet another round of exegesis of
the _General Theory_.

> Heilbroner has remarked that "the only thing the
> _Journal of Economic Perspectives_ lacks is...perspectives."

Perhaps he'll turn in a ms. the next time we try to get him to write for us.



Brad DeLong