HES: RE: QUERY--All pre-1936 economists were laissez faire advocates?

Fri Jan 26 20:29:37 EST 2007

Re Perry Mehrling's question (what is the origin of the rhetorical trope used by Krugman, and in fact by many others.  Who first thought it was a good idea to pretend that all was darkness before Keynes brought light?): add "nearly" to "all" and the answer is Joan Robinson, Richard Kahn and J.M. Keynes (circa early 1930s).

Robert Leeson