Post-Keynesian Essays in Biography Portraits of Twentieth-Century Po
This volume is a collection of intellectual biographies of economists, which the author has written over the last 16 years. There are four categories: accounts of Cambridge greats - Joan Robinson, Piero Sraffa, Nicholas Kaldor, Richard Kahn; oral historie
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Post-Keynesian Essays in Biography Portraits of Twentieth-Century Political Economists
G. C. Harcourt
Reader in the History of Economic Theory University of Cambridge Fellow and President, Jesus College, Cambridge Professor Emeritus, University of Adelaide
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Contents Acknowledgements
VI
Introduction
IX
PART I 1 2 3 4
FOUR MODERN CAMBRIDGE POLITICAL ECONOMISTS
Joan Robinson On Piero Sraffa's Contributions to Economics Nicholas Kaldor, 12 May 1908-30 September 1986 R. F. Kahn 10 August 1905-6 June 1989: A Tribute
PART II
ORAL HISTORIES
5 An Early Post-Keynesian: Lorie Tarshis. Or: Tarshis on Tarshis by Harcourt 6 Notes on an Economic Querist: G. L. S. Shackle 7 A Man for All Systems: Talking with Kenneth Boulding 8 A Twentieth-Century Eclectic: Richard Goodwin PART III
13 14 15 16 17 18
69 83 93 105
MEMOIRS AND TRIBUTES
9 The End of an Era: Joan Robinson (1903-83) and Piero Sraffa (1898-1983) 10 Eric Russell, (1921-77): A Memoir II Athanasios (Tom) Asimakopulos, 28 May 1930-25 May 1990: A Memoir 12 Maurice Do
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