On Changing Your Mind

Is it better in difficult times to stand firm, or look again? Lessons from a humane economist and philosopher.

The young Keynes - soon to change his mind. Image via wikicommnons

I wrote this a while ago, and published it on Medium. I think it’s one of the best things I’ve written, and I think its message – that the world will not end if we say the wrong thing, make a mistake or even admit that we have changed our mind – is an important one. We are just as polarised and mired in ideology as our forebears were in the 1920s and 30s when Keynes’ displayed his unusual readiness to change his mind. So I’ve decided to make it a substack post rather than just leave it languishing in the Archive.

Next time, I’ll return to the Brontës!