F. P. Ramsey

John Maynard Keynes

Chapter Chapter 29 in Essays in Biography, 2010, pp 335-346 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The death at the age of twenty-six of Frank Ramsey, Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, sometime scholar of Winchester and of Trinity, son of the President of Magdalene, was a heavy loss— though his primary interests were in Philosophy and Mathematical Logic—to the pure theory of Economics. From a very early age, about sixteen I think, his precocious mind was intensely interested in economic problems. Economists living in Cambridge have been accustomed from his undergraduate days to try their theories on the keen edge of his critical and logical faculties. If he had followed the easier path of mere inclination, I am not sure that he would not have exchanged the tormenting exercises of the foundations of thought and of psychology, where the mind tries to catch its own tail, for the delightful paths of our own most agreeable branch of the moral sciences, in which theory and fact, intuitive imagination and practical judgment, are blended in a manner comfortable to the human intellect.

Keywords: Logical Faculty; Fundamental Matter; Easy Path; Mental Habit; Animal Sensation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-59074-2_29

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