Word: primitivists
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...banquet in London, where Dr. Sprague waxed conservatively eloquent over the manifold virtues of the depression in eradicating the weak and inefficient, etc., Mr. J. M. Keynes approached him afterward and said, "There is only one word to describe you. You are a sadist." Dr. Sprague is a primitivist whose primitivism extends back only to the nineteenth century. Along with many other learned economists of our time he yearns for a world which exists no more and insists upon an attitude which can only seem uselessly scholastic...