Canes - Is It a Galetarian Thing to Do?

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I think of the india offices having been good for canes. That made him less conformist. But if you look at his writings on malthus, he was obsessed with malthus at the time. He talked about competition between the races. He has a lot of remarks about india that show a bigger picture concern, but one that's very non agalitarian. So i view canes on in as decidedly anti galetarian. Would you agree with that? Noi don't have strong opinions. But he wants the british to rule them, right? He never entertains democracy for india, which was not that radical an idea then, right?...

After reading Zach Carter’s intellectual biography of Keynes earlier this year, Tyler declared that the book would qualify “without reservation” as one of the best of the year. Tyler’s assessment proved common, as the book would soon become a New York Times bestseller and later be declared one of the ten best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. In the book, Carter not only traces Keynes’ intellectual achievements throughout his lifetime, but also shows how those ideas have lasted long after him, making him one of the most influential economists who’s ever lived.

Zach joined Tyler to discuss what Keynes got right – and wrong – about the Treaty of Versailles, how working in the India Office influenced his economic thinking, the seemingly strange paradox of his “liberal imperialism,” the elusive central message of The General Theory, the true extent of Keynes’ interest in eugenics, why he had a conservative streak, why Zach loves Samuel Delaney’s novel Nova, whether Bretton Woods was doomed to fail, the Enlightenment intuitions behind early defenses of the gold standard, what’s changed since Zach became a father, his next project, and more.

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