Harvard Prof Bashes Economist for Being Gay

[wilsonbooks]

http://www.advocate.com/business/economy/2013/05/04/harvard-prof-bashes-economist-being-gay

BY TRUDY RING MAY 04 2013 1:48 PM ET


Influential 20th-century economist John Maynard Keynes, an advocate of government spending to boost employment, has his adherents and detractors, but to Harvard economics professor Niall Ferguson, one of the chief problems with Keynes is that he was gay.

At a conference of investors and financial professionals in California Thursday, Ferguson said Keynes didn’t care about the effect of economic policy on future generations because he was gay and childless, Financial Advisor magazine reports.

“Ferguson asked the audience how many children Keynes had,” Financial Advisor contributor Tom Kostigen writes. “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 responded to Ferguson’s comments with silence, and some later said they took offense, Kostigen reports. The reporter adds, “This takes gay-bashing to new heights. It even perversely pins the full weight of the financial crisis on the gay community and the barren. Not only is this intellectually void, it’s mad. And anyone with a moral conscience should be outraged.”

[Salviati]

1. WTF, between this and Fuckface Von Clownstick "outing" Jon Stewart as jewish, did conservatives...

... just unilaterally decide to start living in the 1950's again?

[wilsonbooks]

2. Doesn't reflect well on Harvard as an educational venue.

[DonViejo]

3. The idiot has "apologized"...

Harvard Professor apologizes for Keynes comments

NEW YORK (AP) — Niall Ferguson, a Harvard history professor and author, is apologizing for saying economist John Maynard Keynes didn’t care about the future because he was gay and had no children.

Ferguson made the remarks on Thursday during a question-and-answer session after a prepared speech at the Altegris Strategic Investment conference in Carlsbad, Calif. Asked to comment about Keynes, he suggested that the British economist’s philosophy was shaped by being homosexual and therefore childless.

The remarks were reported by the website of Financial Advisor magazine and other online publications.

On Saturday Ferguson acknowledged the remarks and said he never should have suggested Keynes’ economic philosophy was inspired by his personal life. He said he deeply apologized.

http://www.salon.com/2013/05/04/harvard_professor_apologizes_for_keynes_comments/

[Politicalboi]

4. Gay people with no kids

Still pay school tax for something they will NEVER use again. And we're damned if we do have kids, and damned if we don't.

[Old Union Guy]

5. The point of public education is that a literate populace is good for society ...

... it's not just a "government goody" for parents.