The Reviews of Keynes’s Treatise on Probability

There were in fact a large number, as can be seen below. Ramsey (1922) was thought by many to have refuted Keynes, but modern defenders of Keynes contend that Ramsey did not understand Keynes’s theory and had based his summary of it on a very limited reading of the Treatise.

The reviews are below:

[Anonymous?] F. Y. E. 1922. “A Treatise on Probability by John Maynard Keynes,” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 85.1: 107–113.

[Anonymous?] W. L. C. 1922. “A Treatise on Probability by John Maynard Keynes,” Journal of the Institute of Actuaries (1886-1994) 53.1: 78–83.

[Anonymous?] W. L. C. 1923. “A Treatise on Probability. by J. M. Keynes,” Journal of the American Statistical Association 18.141: 678–682.

[Anonymous]. 1924 “A Treatise on Probability by J.-M. Keynes,” Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 31.1: 11–12.

Broad, C. D. 1922. “A Treatise on Probability. by J. M. Keynes,” Mind n.s. 31.121: 72–85.

Costello, Harry T. 1923. “A Treatise on Probability by John Maynard Keynes,” The Journal of Philosophy 20.11: 301–306.

De Laguna, Theodore. 1930. “On Keynes’ Theory of Probability,” The Philosophical Review 39.3: 227–242.

Fisher, R. A. 1923. “Mr. Keynes’s Treatise on Probability,” Eugenics Review 14: 46–50.

Foster, William S. 1922. “A Treatise on Probability by John Maynard Keynes,” The American Journal of Psychology 33.3: 439–442.

Joseph, H. W. B. 1923. “Mr. Keynes on Probability,” Mind n.s. 32.128: 408–431.

Lewis, Clarence Irving. 1922. “A Treatise on Probability by John Maynard Keynes,” The Philosophical Review. 31.2: 180–186.

Pigou, A. C. 1921. “A Treatise on Probability,” The Economic Journal 31.124: 507–512.

Ramsey, Frank. P. 1922. “Mr. Keynes on Probability,” Cambridge Magazine 1.1: 3–5. [Reprinted in Ramsey 1989.]

Ramsey, Frank. P. 1926. “Truth and Probability,” in The Foundations of Mathematics and Other Logical Essays. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, London.

Ramsey, Frank. P. 1989. “Mr Keynes on Probability,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 40: 219–222.

Russell, Bertrand. 1922. “A Treatise on Probability by John Maynard Keynes,” The Mathematical Gazette 11.159: 119–125. [Reprinted in Russell 1948.]

Russell, Bertrand. 1948. “A Treatise on Probability by John Maynard Keynes,” The Mathematical Gazette 32.300: 152–159.

Sheppard, W. F. 1923. “Probability and Statistics,” The Mathematical Gazette 11.167: 405–409.

Wilson, E. B. 1923. “Keynes on Probability,” Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 29.7: 319-322.

Wolf, A. 1922. “Studies in Probability. I. Probability,” Economica 4: 87–97.

Also, J. Aldrich, 2008. “Keynes among the Statisticians,” History of Political Economy 40.2: 265–316, appears to be concerned with the reception of Keynes’s work on probability.