Although economists have recognized long ago that "time enters into all economic questions", the ways they treated and modeled time has varied substantially in the last century. While in the 1930s there was a distinctive Cambridge tradition against discounting utilities of future generations, to...

Frank Plumpton Ramsey (b.: Feb. 22, 1903; d.: Jan. 19, 1930) was a Cambridge mathematician who made important contributions not only to philosophy, mathematics, logic, and probability, but also to economics with two major works published in 1927 and 1928 in the Economic Journal, which became popular...

The present-day standard textbook narrative on the history of growth theory usually takes Robert Solow's 1956 contribution as a key starting point, with extensions on the savings decision (done by David Cass and Tjalling Koopmans in 1965) being the next important development. However, such...