Re: Re. Creditary Economics

[Harry Veeder <eo200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: Re. Creditary Economics

> Earlier today, I
> congratulated Geoffrey Gardiner on his "brilliant synopsis of
> Creditary Economics" on the PKT list.
>  
> The prompt dismissive
> comments by Harry Veeder and John O'Donnell suggest that they are an
> exception to the rule whereof Keynes once wrote as
> follows:
>  
> "If only Malthus,
> instead of Ricardo, had been the parent stem from which
> nineteenth-century economics proceeded, what a much wiser and richer
> place the world would be to-day!  We have laboriously to
> re-discover and force through the obscuring envelopes of our misguided
> education what should never have ceased to be
> obvious."
>  
> In economics, of course,
> the "obvious" is only so retrospectively - or, in
> O'Donnell's sagacious phrase, Much Ado About
> Nothing.
>  
> Gunnar

I am sorry if I displayed a lack gratitude, but I was

not being dismissive.

In the marketplace of ideas, the seller (the writer) may

sincerely believe they are only offering good seeds, but the buyer

(the reader) has a right and a responsibility to point out the

bad seeds.

Harry Veeder