Dennis Robertson

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Robertson, Sir Dennis, 1890âEUR"1963, British economist, grad. Trinity
College, Cambridge. A professor at Cambridge (1944âEUR"57), he also handled
Anglo-American financial relationships during World War II and played an
active part in the postwar Bretton Woods Monetary Conference. Robertson was
an early associate of John Maynard Keynes, and his Banking Policy and the
Price Level (1926) foreshadowed some of Keynes's later work, especially that
part dealing with the relationship between saving and investment. Later,
however, Robertson became a trenchant critic of Keynesian economics. In A
Study of Industrial Fluctuation (1915), Robertson's examination of the trade
cycle, he supported government intervention and assumed a strongly
anti-inflationary position. He was noted for his unique ability to present
abstract economic analysis in highly readable form.

See R. J. Saulnier, Contemporary Monetary Theory (1938, repr. 1970).

JD