Two top economists talk about ideas and economic personalities. Part 1. Part 2.
Quotable:
One point which deserves mention in this connection is that Keynes knew appallingly little about nineteenth-century economics, or about nineteenth-century history. He hated the nineteenth century for aesthetic reasons [laughter]. While he was a great expert on Elizabethan history, he just disliked the nineteenth century so much that beyond Marshall and just a little John Stuart Mill and Ricardo, he knew nothing of the literature and very little about the history of the period.
