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7 May 2013updated 05 Oct 2023 8:46am

The safest place in economics is wherever Niall Ferguson isn’t

The historian isn't so hot when he's looking forwards in time.

By Alex Hern

Last week, historian Niall Ferguson made some bizarre remarks about John Maynard Keynes, alleging that the economist was gay, and that because of that and the fact that he didn’t have children, he did not care about the future.

Ferguson has since apologised, but Business Insider‘s Joe Weisenthal puts the comments into the context of the professor’s war on Keynesian economics:

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