This article approaches the centenary of the birth of E. F. ('Fritz') Schumacher with a contemporary question in mind. How do academic economists create an impact with their work and how can that be increased? It examines, in the case of Schumacher, various sources that could influence the...

In recent years, policy-makers in developing countries have responded to crisis of macroeconomic instability with two sets of measures: conventional stabilisation policies and policies of economic liberalisation. The fiscal implications of this double agenda are set out, following three lines of...

This essay discusses Hans Singer's intellectual formation and the influences on his early writings and on his post-1947 development economics. It asks what impact the unusual experience of studying with both Schumpeter and Keynes had upon his subsequent economic thinking and practice. It argues...

Nicholas Kaldor's tax reform proposals for eight developing countries were addressed primarily to improving the equity of direct taxation. This article explores the sources of Kaldor's proposals, his ideas about the measurement of taxable capacity, his methods as a tax adviser, the changing...

This paper provides an account of the development of John Maynard Keynes's writings on population, the subject which many of his contemporaries saw as his intellectual Achilles' heel. In particular, it shows the central role of Keynes's unpublished manuscript entitled 'Population' in the...