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‘Horses for Courses’: The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist (1999)

In: The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest

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  • G C Harcourt

    (University of Cambridge
    Jesus College
    University of Adelaide
    University of New South Wales)

Abstract

Arnold Heertje’s invitation to contribute to his series came at an opportune time, just a few days after I had been presented with the volumes of a Festschrift organised by Philip Arestis, Gabriel Palma and Malcolm Sawyer (1997a, 1997b) at my Cambridge college, Jesus.† I have been reading the essays in the volumes by friends and colleagues (an overlapping set) with gratitude and absorption; I have also been reflecting on their interpretations and explanations of what I have done. Sometimes these have been of considerable surprise to me. For example, John King sent me the first draft of his essay (King, 1997) which partly revolved around my first book, Economic Activity (1967). I wrote the book jointly with Peter Karmel and Bob Wallace and I had to point out to John that many of the perceptive and ahead-of-their-time insights of the Young Harcourt were in fact those of the Young Karmel and/or the Young Wallace. Bruce McFarlane (1997) perceived in his reading of some of my papers on socialist investment and planning, insights and foresight which, while most flattering, reflect more his own ‘before the time was ripe’ contributions than mine; and so on.

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  • G C Harcourt, 2012. "‘Horses for Courses’: The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist (1999)," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest, chapter 1, pages 11-51, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-34865-3_2
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230348653_2
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