"conventional wisdom"

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>From Google Books, with some dubious dates. It appears that Keynes (at  
least) used "conventional wisdom."
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_Proceedings of the Board of Regents - Page  78_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=0UywUsv5G8eA2U&id=4OIcNm6vyV4C&q="conventional+wisdom"+date:1900-1963&dq
="conventional+wisdom"+date:1900-1963&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1) 
by University of Michigan.  Board of Regents - 1915
A passionate  teacher, Professor Angus routinely challenged the conventional 
wisdom  
of his field. ...
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_NBS Special Publication - Page 72_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=0F4A9UfXKw25RnyJKB&id=HcpW8Jj3lf4C&q="conventional+wisdom"+date:1900-1963&dq="convent
ional+wisdom"+date:1900-1963&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1) 
by United States. National Bureau of  Standards - 1918
I suggest the scientific  trappings, because of the present-day contempt for 
horse 
sense, which is now  fairly labeled “conventional wisdom. ...
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_The Paths of Inland Commerce: A Chronicle of Trail, Road,  and Waterway - 
Page 175_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN20004902&id=MHt-zh5Y8-MC&q="conventional+wisdom"+date:1900-1963&dq="conventional+wisdom"+date:1900-1963&num=10
0&ie=ISO-8859-1) 
by  Archer Butler Hulbert - 1920 - 211 pages
... ignoring the conventional  wisdom of his day and craft, built the 
Washington 
to sail on the water  instead of in it, doing away altogether with a hold and 
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_The South African Journal of Economics: Suid-afikaanse  Tydskrif Vir 
Ekonomie - Page 148_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=0hZtsJjPtrp7a4jxQ0&id=Bry-y7r6OOwC&q="conventional+wisdom"+date:1900-1963&dq="conventional+wisdom"+date:1900
-1963&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1) 
by Economic Society of South Africa -  1933
In the reviewer's opinion, Hobson the man, the challenger of the  
conventional 
wisdom, the humanitarian, is of much greater  interest than his economic ...
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_English Radicalism. - - Page 604_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN36009600&id=ju5RmZKhO1MC&q="conventional+wisdom"+date:1900-1963&dq="conventional+w
isdom"+date:1900-1963&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1) 
by Simon Maccoby -  1935
13, on Keynes's construction "of a new body of conventional  wisdom, the 
obsolescence 
of some parts of which, in its turn, is now  well advanced". ...
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_The Education Digest - Page 33_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=0F148eZnN8XCShf1jl&id=NycoL7ERBdEC&q="conventional+wisdom"
+date:1900-1963&dq="conventional+wisdom"+date:1900-1963&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1) 
edited by Lawrence W. Prakken - 1935
... opportunity was unimpaired, however,  and the conventional wisdom is now 
that 
courts powerfully influence  the educational policy-making process. ...
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_Cognitive Psychology and Information Processing: An  Introduction - Page 20_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0898591317&id=CQN5a45npM0C&pg=PA20&lpg=
PA20&dq="conventional+wisdom"+date:1900-1963&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=Ph2UzzS
0OFzPaQd_g-IbjqrTl6Y) 
by Roy  Lachman - 1940
They fall back on their  conventional wisdom whenever the rational rules fail 
them, which is  often. The scientist makes many decisions by reference to an  
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_The Secret of Letting Go - Page 148_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0875422233&id=7IS4_hPZtGwC&pg=RA1-PA148&lpg=RA1-PA148&dq="conventional+wisdom"+
date:1900-1963&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=56NE2qa92XCfVmpBfalFzwVpoAU) 
by Guy Finley -  Self-help - 1951 -  240 pages
He knew something out of the ordinary was happening to  him because, right 
about 
then, his conventional wisdom would  have had him out of the car and running 
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Limited preview - _Table of Contents_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0875422233&id=7IS4_hPZtGwC&printsec=toc&dq="conventional+wisdom"+date:1900-1963
&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=TrKauzUXwPJWL7YAXH7kB6g71xk)  - _About this book_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0875422233&id=7IS4_hPZtGwC&dq="conventio
nal+wisdom"+date:1900-1963&num=100&ie=ISO-8859-1) 
 

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