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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHarvard’s Niall Ferguson Suggests Keynes’ Economic Theories Were Flawed… Because He Was Gay
Speaking at the Tenth Annual Altegris Conference in Carlsbad, Calif., in front of a group of more than 500 financial advisors and investors, Ferguson responded to a question about Keynes' famous philosophy of self-interest versus the economic philosophy of Edmund Burke, who believed there was a social contract among the living, as well as the dead. Ferguson asked the audience how many children Keynes had. He explained that Keynes had none because he was a homosexual and was married to a ballerina, with whom he likely talked of "poetry" rather than procreated. The audience went quiet at the remark. Some attendees later said they found the remarks offensive.
It gets worse.
Ferguson, who is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and author of The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die, says it's only logical that Keynes would take this selfish worldview because he was an "effete" member of society. Apparently, in Ferguson's world, if you are gay or childless, you cannot care about future generations nor society.
http://www.fa-mag.com/news/harvard-professor-gay-bashes-keynes-14173.html
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Harvard’s Niall Ferguson Suggests Keynes’ Economic Theories Were Flawed… Because He Was Gay (Original Post)
Warren Stupidity
May 2013
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)1. Ferguson's over all views are right wing.
Not just his comments of Keynes, but his views on economics.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)3. He's the author of this controversy, too...
Niall Ferguson Smacked Down Over Another Questionable Newsweek Cover
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/08/niall-ferguson-smacked-down-over-obama-newsweek-cover.html
He's good friends with Andrew Sullivan too.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)5. "former John McCain adviser Niall Ferguson "
Aha!
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)2. Fwiw...
The idiot has "apologized"...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/113726590#post3
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)4. What does he think of Relativity?
Maybe we ought to take a closer look at some of this Einstein nonsense. After all, he was Jewish.
Brilliant scholarship there, pal.