In 1912 Guillermo Subercaseaux (1872-1959), a professor of economics at the University of Chile, published El Papel Moneda, translated into French in 1920 as Le Papier-Monnaie. Subercaseaux's book was reviewed in North-American and European economic journals, and was regarded by Knut Wicksell...

The paper investigates Dennis Robertson's effort to defend the Cambridge utilitarian tradition against the “new welfare economics”, developed in the 1930s and 1940s on the basis of Lionel Robbins's influential criticism of the scientific legitimacy of interpersonal comparisons of utility. It...

Some parallels are drawn between Celso Furtado's structural and Douglass North neo-institutional approaches to economic history. It is argued that both authors interpreted the economic histories of Brazil and the United States respectively in the context of the investigation of the economic...

This essay analyses early reactions put forward by Cambridge economists David Champernowne and Joan Robinson to J. M. Keynes`s treatment of the labour market in The General Theory. Champernowne`s and Robinson`s critical reactions represented attempts to fill the gap of the determinants of...

Knut Wicksell's concept of the natural (or neutral) rate of interest, introduced between the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, has played an important role in modern monetary macroeconomics, especially after the development of inflation targeting policy in the 1990s. More...

The origins of “capital fundamentalism” – the notion that physical capital accumulation is the primary determinant of economic growth – have been often ascribed to Harrod's and Domar's proposition that the rate of growth is the product of the saving rate and of the output-capital ratio....

The paper makes use of archive material to examine Evsey Domar's role in the introduction of the rate of growth as a variable in economics in the 1940s and 1950s. Domar investigated the nature of what he called the “moving equilibrium” of economic processes with infinite duration. Reactions...

This paper covers the history of secular stagnation from Alvin's Hansen's AEA Presidential address in 1938 to the recent re-discovery of the idea by Lawrence Summers. It is argued that the story of secular stagnation is more complicated than the simple version usually told: the theory changed in...

David Champernowne (1912-2000) was one of the most gifted Cambridge mathematical economists, with important contributions in the field of economic statistics (measurement of income distribution and inequality; and probability, decision making and estimation methods in economics), and in the form...