Understanding Dennis Robertson: The Man and His Work: Gordon A. Fletcher
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‘This is a magnificent intellectual biography of one of the great mysterious figures of modern macroeconomics.’ — Mark Blaug, University of London, UK
. . . a fine example of intellectual biography. . . — - John Smithin, Eastern Economic Journal, Summer 2002
…a fine example of intellectual biography, which lives up to the implicit promise made in its title. — John Smithin, Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 28, no. 3, Summer 2002
…fascinating, insightful yet somehow strange book… — – Daniele Besomi, History of Economics Review
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 Drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished material, novel forms of evidence - both biographical and literary, together with a fresh reading of Robertson’s principal books and essays, Fletcher argues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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