Re: WWW -- Harrod home-page (fwd)

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

Steve,
      This is quite possible, although it was much later
than Harrod wrote that Goodwin published anything
on this.  But, given Goodwin's Sraffaesque approach
to publishing that does not prove much.
      Curiously enough, and not well known, it was
Goodwin's 1951 paper on the nonlinear accelerator
that triggered the first discovery of chaotic dynamics
in economics, although the people who found it did not
know what they had found.  That primordial reference is

Strotz, Robert H., J.C. McAnulty, and Joseph B. Naines, Jr.
"Goodwin's Nonlinear Model of the Business Cycle: An
Electro-Analog Solution," Econometrica 21 (1953), 390-411.

     Of course Goodwin himself would become involved
in studying chaotic economic dynamics in the 1980s under
the influence of Richard H. Day.
Barkley Rosser
James Madison University
rosserjb@xxxxxxx
http://cob.jmu.edu/rosserjb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Keen" <s.keen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: WWW -- Harrod home-page (fwd)


> Also, Richard Goodwin claimed that he gave Harrod the idea of the
> multiplier-accelerator some years earlier, when RG was an undergraduate(?)
> student of Harrod's. Given RG's technical prowess and personal modesty, I
> take this claim seriously. But I think Daniele does deal with these issues
> in more detail in his equally excellent book on Harrod:
>
> Daniele Besomi, _The Making of Harrod's Dynamics_. St Martin's Press New
> York (and MacMillan London), 1999. Published in the _Studies in the
history
> of economics_ series (D.E. Moggridge ed.). xiib + 289 pp. $75.00
> (hardcover). ISBN: 0-312-21908-3.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
> At 05:32 AM 5/23/01 Wednesday, you wrote:
> >       Nice website, but it is at least slightly misleading
> >in its cover remarks. It seems to imply that Harrod
> >was the first to show a multiplier-accelerator model
> >of the trade cycle.  His 1936 article did precede most
> >others, including the more widely cited one by Samuelson
> >in 1939.  But Kalecki beat him to the punch in 1935.
> >       Although Kahn may have come up with multiiplier
> >only in the early 1930s, Aftalion had posited the accelerator
> >as early as 1913, and clearly saw it as a mechanism for
> >explaining cyclical fluctuations.
> >Barkley Rosser
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Alan G. Isaac" <aisaac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: "Post Keynesian Theory" <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 10:51 PM
> >Subject: HES: WWW -- Harrod home-page (fwd)
> >
> >
> > > This shd interest list members.
> > > Alan Isaac
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Daniele Besomi <dbesomi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: hes@xxxxxx
> > > Subject: HES: WWW -- Harrod home-page
> > >
> > > I have posted a Harrod home page at
> > >
> > > http://www.dplanet.ch/users/dbesomi/Harrod-Home/welcome.htm
> > >
> > > It contains biographical and bibliographical materials, a number of
> > > Harrod's own texts (in pdf format), secondary literature, references
> > > to archival resources, and links to other materials relating to Harrod
> > > on the web.
> > >
> > > Comments, suggestions and reports of bugs are welcome.
> > >
> > >
>
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