Perspectives on the contributions of Richard Goodwin

This is an introductory essay to the Special Issue of the Cambridge Journal of Economics to commemorate the birth centennial of Richard Goodwin, one of three original founding Patrons of the journal. Eleven former students, colleagues and friends contribute their visions of one or another aspect of the pioneering insights of Goodwin to the development of various aspects of multisectoral macrodynamics. The paper summarises, in terse outline form, the diverse contributions, and tries to provide a framework in which to understand them. The framework is in terms of Goodwin’s own visions and work, in the geometry of macroeconomic and multisectoral dynamics, over almost half-a-century.