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Keynes recognized that there were a few cases where his rational analysis of decision making under conditions of uncertainty and risk using: (a) interval valued probability in Parts II and III of the A Treatise on Probability,(b) decision weights in Part IV of the A Treatise on Probability ,or...
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Keynes spent a tremendous amount of time and energy attempting to tutor Harrod on the mechanics of his IS-LM model between July to September, 1935. Keynes's painstaking slow attempts finally led Keynes in desperation to write a three point postscript to his letter of August, 1935, that is...
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Very severe contradictions, inconsistencies, and confusions exist in the exchanges between two Heterodox economists, who are considered to be the top Heterodox experts on Keynes's A Treatise on Probability, logical theory of probability, and of the connections between the A Treatise on...
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It is ‘…quite puzzling,indeed'(Skidelsky,1992p.71) how a paper as extremely poor and deficient as R. B. Braithwaite's editorial foreword could have been selected to appear at the beginning of the 1973 Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Volume 8, version of the A Treatise on...
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The very recent publication of C. Misak's autobiography of F P Ramsey in 2020, as well as a number of book reviews made by different reviewers of that book, have resulted in the resurrection of highly misleading claims made by F. Ramsey, when he was 18 years old, that can only be characterized...
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J M Keynes could not respond to Ramsey’s 1922 Cambridge Magazine “article” because Keynes’s response would have required him to methodically show that every paragraph of Ramsey’s 3 page note didn’t make any sense at all due to the large numbers of errors of commission and omission....
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The first page of the 18 year old, F. P. Ramsey’s very short three page review, in the Cambridge Magazine issue of Jan., 1922, of Keynes’s A Treatise on Probability is comprised of claims about Keynes’s logical theory of probability that, to use L. J. Savage’s characterization of...
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C. Misak’s 2020 biography of Ramsey has major errors in it, as regards the influence of Ramsey on Keynes with respect to the issue of probability, as well as her completely unsubstantiated retelling of the R B Braithwaite myth that an 18 year old Frank Ramsey showed up at Cambridge University...
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