| | Hoppe is obviously being railroaded here, and I certainly side with him in his case against UNLV.
However, having cast fuzzy-wuzzy GLBT diversity-mongering aside, this does seem like a dumb line of thought to pursue in a classroom lecture:
"Another example he gave the class was that homosexuals tend to plan less for the future than heterosexuals.
Reasons for the phenomenon include the fact that homosexuals tend not to have children, he said. They also tend to live riskier lifestyles than heterosexuals, Hoppe said.
He said there is a belief among some economists that one of the 20th century's most influential economists, John Maynard Keynes, was influenced in his beliefs by his homosexuality. Keynes espoused a "spend it now" philosophy to keep an economy strong, much as President Bush did after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks."
Maybe there is some point to this argument that homosexuals live a risky lifestyle, I don't know. But to think that Keynes was moved to invent his obtuse theories of spending multipliers and liquidity traps because he led a live-in-the-now, bisexual lifestyle seems like quite a stretch.
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