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On John Maynard Keynes’s Anti-Semitism Once Again: A Documentary Note

In: A Research Annual

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  • Luca Fiorito

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This note presents new archival evidence about John Maynard Keynes’ attitudes toward Jews. The relevant material is composed of two letters sent by Robert G. Wertheimer to Bertrand Russell and Richard F. Kahn along with their replies. Between 1963 and 1964, Wertheimer – an Austrian-born Jewish immigrant then professor of economics at Babson College – wrote to Russell and Kahn asking for their personal reminiscences concerning Keynes’ anti-Semitic utterances. In their brief but still significant responses, both Russell and Kahn firmly denied any hint of anti-Semitism in Keynes, thereby providing significant first-hand testimonies from two of his closest acquaintances.

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  • Luca Fiorito, 2015. "On John Maynard Keynes’s Anti-Semitism Once Again: A Documentary Note," Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, in: A Research Annual, volume 33, pages 211-229, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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    DOI: 10.1108/S0743-415420150000033016
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    Keywords

    Anti-semitism; John M. Keynes; Richard F. Kahn; Bertrand Russell; B00; B31; Z12;
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    • B00 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - General - - - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches
    • B31 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought: Individuals - - - Individuals
    • Z12 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Religion

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