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Teaching at Harvard

In: Alvin Hansen

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  • Robert J. Bigg

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Hansen was the consummate teacher, his intellectual curiosity was easily communicated to students and colleagues alike. He was unafraid to display the limits of his understanding and thus to push the boundaries out together. He was said to be a breath of fresh air. Around the time of his arrival in Harvard, Hansen embraced the Keynesian ideas of which he had been so sceptical in his 1936 review. His and John Williams’ Fiscal Policy Seminar created a sense of intellectual excitement combined with social usefulness in terms of policy design. Galbraith described it as the “official” centre of Keynesian discussion at Harvard.

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  • Robert J. Bigg, 2023. "Teaching at Harvard," Great Thinkers in Economics, in: Alvin Hansen, pages 203-217, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gtechp:978-3-031-42216-4_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-42216-4_9
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