Re: Re: RE: Re: A Krugman Klassic

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brad DeLong wrote:

> > 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_.

Could someone enlighten me - has Davidson ever written or said
anything of compelling interest?

Doug