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A Forgotten Genius — Cheryl Misak

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Ramsey and Caines - Is That a Good Idea?

i uncovered that while ramsey was writing these two path breaking papers and economics, he was running around cambridge giving a talk called mathematics and economics. So if you had met him in 19 26, you would have encountered a very complex a thinker. He is responsible for the state of modern economics being highly idealized and highly a mathematized. But as i say, that wasn't ramsey. If you look at the papers that he was a running round cambradge reading at the time, he was throwing a spanner in the works of the very machinery that he set up.

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