Harvard’s Niall Ferguson Suggests Keynes’ Economic Theories Were Flawed… Because He Was Gay

[Warren Stupidity]

Speaking at the Tenth Annual Altegris Conference in Carlsbad, Calif., in front of a group of more than 500 financial advisors and investors, Ferguson responded to a question about Keynes' famous philosophy of self-interest versus the economic philosophy of Edmund Burke, who believed there was a social contract among the living, as well as the dead. Ferguson asked the audience how many children Keynes had. He explained that Keynes had none because he was a homosexual and was married to a ballerina, with whom he likely talked of "poetry" rather than procreated. The audience went quiet at the remark. Some attendees later said they found the remarks offensive.

It gets worse.

Ferguson, who is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and author of The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die, says it's only logical that Keynes would take this selfish worldview because he was an "effete" member of society. Apparently, in Ferguson's world, if you are gay or childless, you cannot care about future generations nor society.

http://www.fa-mag.com/news/harvard-professor-gay-bashes-keynes-14173.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Ferguson's over all views are right wing.

Not just his comments of Keynes, but his views on economics.

[DonViejo]

3. He's the author of this controversy, too...

Niall Ferguson Smacked Down Over Another Questionable Newsweek Cover

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/08/niall-ferguson-smacked-down-over-obama-newsweek-cover.html

He's good friends with Andrew Sullivan too.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. "former John McCain adviser Niall Ferguson "

Aha!

[DonViejo]

2. Fwiw...

The idiot has "apologized"...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/113726590#post3

[jberryhill]

4. What does he think of Relativity?

Maybe we ought to take a closer look at some of this Einstein nonsense. After all, he was Jewish.

Brilliant scholarship there, pal.