Post-Keynesian Essays in Biography: Portraits of Twentieth-Century Political Economists

ISBN-13: 9780333569559 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 173 str.

G. C. Harcourt

Opis

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 histories of Lorie Tarshis, George Shackle, Kenneth Boulding and Richard Goodwin; memoirs of close friends of the author who have died; and shorter essays which include John Hicks, James Meade, Brian Reddaway, Arthur Smithies, Heinz Arndt and J.M.Keynes.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - PART 1 INTRODUCTION - PART 2 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: A Tribute - PART 3 ORAL HISTORIES - An Early Post Keynesian: Lorie Tarshis. Or: Tarshis on Tarshis by Harcourt - Notes on an Economic Querist: G.L.S.Shackle - A Man for All Systems: Talking to Kenneth Boulding - A Twentieth Century Eclectic: Richard Goodwin - PART 4 MEMOIRS AND TRIBUTES - The End of an Era: Joan Robinson (1903-83) and Piero Sraffa (1898-1983) - Eric Russell (1921-77): A Memoir - Athanasios (Tom) Asimakopulos, 28 May 1930-25 May 1990: A Memoir - Maurice Dobb (1900-76) - PART 5 SHORTER ESSAYS - John Hicks (1904-89) - James Meade - W.B.Reddaway - Arthur Smithies (1907-81) - H.W.Arndt - John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)