Dennis Robertson (economist)

Dennis Holme Robertson

Born	23 May 1890(1890-05-23)
Died	21 April 1963(1963-04-21) (aged 72)
Nationality	English
Field	Banking Policy and Industrial Fluctuations

Sir Dennis Holme Robertson (23 May 1890 – 21 April 1963) was an English economist who taught at Cambridge and London Universities.

Robertson, the son of a Church of England clergyman, was born in Lowestoft and educated as a scholar of Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Classics and Economics, graduating in 1912.

Robertson worked closely with John Maynard Keynes in the 1920s and 1930s, during the years when Keynes was developing many of the ideas that later were incorporated in his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Keynes wrote that at that time, working with Robertson, it was good to work with someone who had a "completely first class mind". Ultimately however, differences of temperament and views about economic theory and practice (especially in the 1937 debate over the savings-investment relationship in the General Theory) led to some estrangement between the two men.

Robertson died of a heart attack at Cambridge on April 21, 1963.

Main publications

• A Study of Industrial Fluctuations, 1915.
• "Economic Incentive", 1921, Economica.
• Money, 1922.
• The Control of Industry, 1923.
• "Those Empty Boxes", 1924, EJ.
• Banking Policy and the Price Level, 1926.
• "Increasing Returns and the Representative Firm", 1930, EJ.
• Economic Fragments, 1931.
• "Saving and Hoarding", 1933, EJ.
• "Some Notes on Mr Keynes's "General Theory of Employment"", 1936, QJE.
• "Alternative Theories of the Rate of Interest", 1937, EJ.
• "Mr Keynes and Finance: A note", 1938, EJ.
• "Mr. Keynes and the Rate of Interest", 1940, in Essays in Monetary Theory
• Essays in Monetary Theory, 1940.
• "Wage Grumbles", 1949 in Readings in the Theory of Income Distribution.
• Utility and All That, 1952.
• Britain in the World Economy, 1954.
• Economic Commentaries, 1956.
• Lectures on Economic Principles, 1957-9.
• Growth, Wages, Money, 1961.
• Essays in Money and Interest, 1966

Secondary sources

• Gordon Fletcher (2000), Understanding Dennis Robertson: The Man and His Work.
• J.R. Presley (1979), Robertsonian Economics.
• Ben B. Seligman (1962), Main Currents in Modern Economics: Economic Thought since 1870.

External links

• New School: Dennis Robertson

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Name	Robertson, Dennis
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Date of birth	23 May 1890
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Date of death	21 April 1963
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