Re: Dennis Robertson

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Readable?  Have you ever tried to wade through his stuff?  He has his own
language.

On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 08:12:04AM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
> 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
>

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