In February 1933, Edward Chamberlin published The Theory of Monopolistic Competition. Joan Robinson's The Economics of Imperfect Competition followed in the spring. A disciplinary consensus quickly formed, holding that the two books represented simultaneous discoveries of the same theoretical...

In 1930, Richard Kahn became a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, on the basis of his book-length dissertation 'The Economics of the Short Period.' It was finally published in the 1980s. Why did he not publish his thesis in the 1930s, when it would have made a substantial impact? We present...

Pigou is a misogynist by today's standards for his belief that women are inferior, and for recommending that they not participate in the labor force. This paper argues that Pigou should be judged according to the ethos of the late Victorian era. It provides a less anachronistic assessment by...