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When writing my review of Keynes’ A Treatise On Probability, I found that there is a very detailed review paper by John Aldrich (2008) that covers the beginnings of Keynes as a statistician, entitled “Keynes among the Statisticians” (sic!) and published in the journal History of Political Economy. This review is incredibly helpful in resetting the book in the conditions at the time. I also discovered through this review that Harold Jeffreys reviewed A Treatise On Probability in Nature and that Dennis Lindley wrote an Encyclopedia entry on Keynes, no less…

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