For those who haven’t read it already, there has been a lively debate going on in Amazon.com over Hunter Lewis’s book, Where Keynes Went Wrong… An arrogant pro-Keynes critical review of the book was written by a “Michael Emmett Brady”, which stimulated the debate. Tom Woods made an early quick entr…

Funny, I noticed that a while back when I was searching to get the book. As has been said before, we should really make an effort to review Austrian and liberal/libertarian books well on Amazon. I don’t mean propagandise them, that will defeat the point. The idea is to pick the books that have real…

Yes. I noticed during the course of the debate that the pro-Keynes/anti-libertarians/anti-Austrians employed 2 primary tactics: a dismissal of anyone who has not read Keynes’s General Theory cover to cover, and a disdain for those “who don’t do math”. Those who “do math” do not permit those who “don…

I never really understood the “can’t do the math” objection. If the whole basis for setting up the mathematical equations is flawed, the math simply needn’t be discussed. I’d be very surprised if scholars made such an argument. It seems more of a layperson misunderstanding.

Well yes, but most mainstream economists do use math. From what I have seen, they do not readily accept the assertion that “the whole basis for setting up the mathematical equations is flawed.” They have to be shown why.

I was one posting as Kid Salami - I’m an engineer and so just an amateur follower of the austrian school. I had just finished the book and offhandedly left a three line post with two questions which ended up taking hours of my time over the next 2 weeks. I tried to force them to express the argument…

I finally bought Where Keynes Went Wrong from Borders.com ; they offered me 30% off and no shipping (I shipped it to a nearby store), so the book cost me ~$13. Hopefully I’ll find time to read it!

Just got this book and plan on starting it within the next couple days. If the Keynesians are so up in arms about it, the book must be good.

As I mentioned in another post, I’ve read a lot of the book and thought it was pretty good. The only grudge I have is that there are also a lot of quotes or writings that are used in which there is literally 1 to 3 words pulled from whatever it was that Keynes was saying or writing. I thought that t…

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Have you compared said quotes to the same passages in The General Theory?

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