Introduction

In the June 2013 edition of Quadrant Magazine, Keith Windschuttle published two articles on the history of economic thought: one by Ray Evans on Adam Smith, and another by Geoffrey Luck on John Maynard Keynes.

Both articles were utterly execrable.

In late June I wrote a letter to the editor pointing out the deficiencies in the articles, and also pointing to problems with an editorial process which would allow such crap to appear in its pages. This is especially so after a most pathetic and transparent 'hoax' article's making its way into the publication only four-and-a-half years ago should have alerted the editorial staff to problems with quality control.

Keith Windschuttle has, for whatever reason, chosen not to publish my letter. Neither in Quadrant nor at Quadrant Online.

So I have decided to publish it myself on the interweb - suitably amended to protect my anonymity.

If you have any grievances with the current editing and management of Quadrant, or would like me to publish letters to Quadrant that you have written in the past but that Keith Windschuttle has in his wisdom seen fit not to publish, then please send them to me and, provided they are non-defamatory, I'll publish them.

My email address is:  thisisangrypenguin@gmail.com

Comments are open. The policy is 'Everyone has fun, nobody gets hurt', so please mind your manners.