Re: NYTimes on Skidelsky's Keynes

[pdavidso <pdavidso@xxxxxxx>]

Some may be interested in Robert Skidelsky's response to Sylvia Nassar's
review of his third volume.  Skidelsky wrote to me that it was curious that
Nasar thought that Britain was ruined by socialism, which is exactly what
Reagan said.


Skidelsky also indicated that the point is not that
Britain had a much smaller economy than the US after WWII (this was already
true in 1900) but that the war wrecked its commercial and financial position.
In fact, Robert did not think this wrecking could have been completely avoided
no matter what avoided, but it was his judgment that the Americans drove a
hard bargain. Skidelsky felt, however, that he had identified too much with
Keynes's own patriotic feelings to make this part of his argument acceptable
to an American audience.


Any comments?

Paul

Paul Davidson
Editor, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
University of Tennessee
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