Harry Johnson
A Life in Economics

This book chronicles eminent economist Harry Johnson's intellectual development and contributions to economic research and policy.

D. E. Moggridge (Author)

9780521874823, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 21 April 2008

500 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm, 0.9 kg

'Harry Johnson's saga has been beautifully encapsulated by Mogridge in this captivating biography.' Economic and Political Weekly

Harry Johnson (1923–1977) was such a striking figure in economics that Nobel Laureate James Tobin designated the third quarter of the twentieth century as 'the age of Johnson'. Johnson played a leading role in the development and extension of the Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade. Within monetary economics he was also a seminal figure who identified and explained the links between the ideas of the major post-war innovators. His discussion of the issues that would benefit from further work set the profession's agenda for a generation. This book chronicles his intellectual development and his contributions to economics, economic education and the discussion of economic policy.

1. Toronto
2. Antigonish
3. England
4. North American postgraduate
5. Cambridge don
6. Cambridge economist
7. Manchester
8. Chicago
9. Canada, economic nationalism, and opulence, 1957–66
10. Money, trade, and development
11. LSE
12. Professional life - largely British
13. Money and inflation
14. The international monetary system
15. Harry's Wicksell period
16. Stroke and after
17. Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Economic history [KCZ], Economics [KC], History of ideas [JFCX], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW]