Re: query: Frank Ramsey

["Justin Schwartz" <jkschw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank Ramsey, the Cambridge philosopher, friend of Wittgenstein--one of the
handful of people W admired, early decision theorist and probablity
theorist--that Frank Ramsey? One of the most brilliant tragicallly short
careers of the century. --jks


> 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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