RE: Re: query: Frank Ramsey

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

yes, one and the same.

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Schwartz [mailto:jkschw@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 3:09 PM
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [PEN-L:8489] Re: query: Frank Ramsey


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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