RE: Re: query: Frank Ramsey

["Forstater, Mathew" <ForstaterM@xxxxxxxx>]

He also influenced Wittgenstein, but Sraffa's influence on W. was famously more
great.

Jim, could you pass on the ad?

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Perelman [mailto:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 11:38 AM
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>Subject: [PEN-L:8481] Re: query: Frank Ramsey


Frank Ramsey was mostly a mathematician.  Sraffa consulted with him when
writing his book.  He also influenced Keynes on probability.  He is
probably best known for Ramsey pricing, which is a scheme for pricing
public utilities.

On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:11:27AM -0800, Jim Devine wrote:
> Yesterday, I received an e-mail advertising a macroeconomics textbook that
> was based on the ideas of Frank Ramsey. It wasn't Keynesian or monetarist,
> but Ramseyite (to paraphrase the blurb). Does anyone know anything about
> Ramsey and his ideas? It sounds like he totally ignored the factor of
> uncertainty in making decisions about the future, but I don't know anything
> about him.
>
> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>

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