Very well done, Nik, I'm going to send out. I'm almost moved to pick up this question of the end of economics. I think think Keynes has it wrong, not that contemporary economists have it right. Galbraith seems to have thought along similar lines. Soon would be wealthy enough to stop thinking about wealth.
But Iour relationships to things are not simply economic. Paintings are, after all, things. Conversely, the needs that economics purports to satisfy (food, shelter) can also give rise to art. And this is long before we get to gifts, vanity, dominance . . .anyway, much more to say, but no time/bandwidth/obligations.
Is the Keynes-Harrod correspondence compiled and published anywhere?
A quick Google search did not disclose anything obvious.
Difficult to find; hidden away somewhere in the massive and expensive Collected Writings - I have a pdf I can share if you would be interested
Damn, real scholarship on Substack!
Very well done, Nik, I'm going to send out. I'm almost moved to pick up this question of the end of economics. I think think Keynes has it wrong, not that contemporary economists have it right. Galbraith seems to have thought along similar lines. Soon would be wealthy enough to stop thinking about wealth.
But Iour relationships to things are not simply economic. Paintings are, after all, things. Conversely, the needs that economics purports to satisfy (food, shelter) can also give rise to art. And this is long before we get to gifts, vanity, dominance . . .anyway, much more to say, but no time/bandwidth/obligations.
Thanks for a fine piece.