HES: Re: QUERY--All pre-1936 economists were laissez faireadvocates?

[Roger Sandilands]

David Laidler's aptly titled _Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution_
(Cambridge 1999) is as good a place as any for showing how widespread
was the rejection of Austrian 'policy nihilism' pre-1936. 

Robin Neill raises the question whether FDR's "brain trusters" were
economists. Tugwell and Berle (but not Moley) were trained as
economists, as were all the "freshman brain trusters" recruited to the
Treasury in 1934 by Jacob Viner. None of these, of course, advocated
laissez faire during depression.

Roger Sandilands