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To: jbe who wrote (1371)	11/10/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 3246

Sure, in a trivial sense. I set out to make a list of those who made important contributions. If I do not see the contribution as important, or I do not see the influence as particularly constructive, why would I have it on my list? Asking me to put on Keynes is, in my mind, like asking me to put on Lamarck. Doubtless he is important in the history of science, and his ideas were influential, but mainly they have been superceded by Darwinism. Similarly, Keynes seems to me an historically interesting figure, and little else. Also, you have never addressed my misgivings about his general intellectual influence as one of the "Bloomsburies".....