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KEYNES, RAMSEY, AND PRAGMATISM: A COMMENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2023

Bradley W. Bateman*
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Bradley W. Bateman: the author may be reached at 725B Gomez Road, Santa Fe, NM 87505, USA, or at bradley.w.bateman@gmail.com.

Abstract

This comment makes a response to one of several points made in Bill Gerrrard’s (2023) criticisms of Bateman (2021) in particular, this comment clarifies Keynes’s use of mathematical expectation in The General Theory (1936).

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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the History of Economics Society

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