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Understanding Dennis Robertson

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  • Gordon Fletcher

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In this fascinating study Gordon Fletcher explores the relationship between the life and work of one of Britain’s most distinguished economists, Sir Dennis Holme Robertson (1890–1963). Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished material, novel forms of evidence – both biographical and literary, together with a fresh reading of Robertson’s principal books and essays, Fletcher argues that Robertsonian economics is indelibly stamped with the impression of Robertson the man and that by better understanding the man we shall better understand his economics. He shows that this is particularly the case with respect to the way in which Robertson’s thought developed and to its particular characteristics, which have often been described by commentators but never explained. Most interestingly, he accounts for Robertson’s breach with his Cambridge colleague J.M. Keynes. With these insights we glimpse the hidden human face of what is all too often regarded as the bloodless discipline, the dismal science.

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  • Gordon Fletcher, 2000. "Understanding Dennis Robertson," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 2064.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eebook:2064
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    1. Steve Davies, 2020. "Think-tanks, policy formation, and the ‘revival’ of classical liberal economics," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 33(4), pages 465-479, December.
    2. Tim Congdon, 2021. "Can central banks run out of ammunition? The role of the money‐equities‐interaction channel in monetary policy," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(1), pages 21-37, February.
    3. Lise Arena, 2013. "Book Review -Peter Groenewegen, The Minor Marshallians and Alfred Marshall: An Evaluation," Post-Print halshs-00864473, HAL.
    4. Daniela Donnini Macciò, 2015. "G.E. Moore's philosophy and Cambridge economics: Ralph Hawtrey on ethics and methodology," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(2), pages 163-197, April.
    5. David Spencer, 2005. "A question of incentive? Lionel Robbins and Dennis H. Robertson on the nature and determinants of the supply of labour," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 12(2), pages 261-278.
    6. Boianovsky, Mauro & Presley, John R., 2009. "The Robertson connection between the natural rates of interest and unemployment," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 20(2), pages 136-150, June.
    7. Mauro Boianovsky, 2005. "DENNIS ROBERTSON ON UTILITY AND WELFARE IN THE 1950s," Anais do XXXIII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 33rd Brazilian Economics Meeting] 010, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics].
    8. Toshiaki Hirai, 2007. "How did Keynes transform his theory from the Tract into the Treatise ?—Consideration through primary material," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(2), pages 325-348.

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    Economics and Finance;

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    • B0 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - General

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