The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist Cambridge Harvest

The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest gathers up the threads of the last decade of the author's twenty eight years in Cambridge, before his return to Australia. The essays include autobiography, theory, review articles, surveys, policy, intellectual biographies and tributes, and general essays.

PART I: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist PART II: THEORETICAL ESSAYS The Debates on the Representative Firm and Increasing Returns Paul Samuelson on Karl Marx 'Capital-reversing and Reswitching' Whatever Happened to the Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies? The Relevance of the Cambridge-Cambridge Controversies in Capital Theory for Econometric Practice The Harrod Model of Growth and Some Early Reactions to it On Mark Perlman and Joseph Schumpeter PART III: REVIEW ARTICLES Monsters and Morals: Review of David Jenkins On Paul Krugman on Maynard Keynes' 'General Theory' PART IV: SURVEYS Joan Robinson and her Circle Cambridge Economic Tradition PART V: POLICY New Labour and Constitutional Reform The Economic Policies of Gordon Brown and the Treasury 'Chickens coming home to roost' PART VI: INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHIES AND TRIBUTES John Cornwall Wilfred Edward Graham Salter John Richard Wells Alister Sutherland PART VII: GENERAL ESSAYS 'Despised and Rejected' Speech to Commerce Graduates

G. C. HARCOURT Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory, Cambridge (1998), Emeritus Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge (1998), UK, and Professor Emeritus, Adelaide (1988), is now a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the School of Economics, UNSW, Australia. He is the author and editor of many books, articles and chapters in books. His books include Some Cambridge Controversies, The Theory of Capital, The Structure of Post-Keynesian Economics, (with Prue Kerr) Joan Robinson and nine volumes of selected essays.