Donald Moggridge

The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. Vol. XXV: Activities 1940-1944. Shaping the Post-War World: The Clearing Union.

1. The origins of the Clearing Union, 1940-1942 2. From Cabinet agreement to White Paper, 1942-1943 3. From White Paper to Joint Statement, April 1943.

Social, political and literary writings

1. Keynes and Kingsley Martin 2. Keynes and ancient currencies 3. Keynes and the arts 4. Hume 5. Miscellany.

Economic articles and correspondence : academic

1. India 2. Index numbers 3. Statistics 4. The First World War and reconstruction 5. Money 6. International economics 7. Miscellaneous reviews.

The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, Vol. XXVI: Activities, 1941-1946. Shaping the Post-War World. Bretton Woods and Reparations.

1. Bretton Woods and after, April 1944-March 1946 2. Commercial policy, December 1941-December 1945 3. Reparations, September 1941-December 1945.

Skidelsky on Keynes: A Review Essay

“If this biography has rescued Keynes from the economists and placed him in the world of history where he properly belongs, it will have achieved its purpose.” Thus Robert Skidelsky concludes the introduction to the final part of his trilogy, some thirty-five years after making his first acquaintance with the historical Keynes for Politicians and the Slump (1967). Counting footnotes, but excluding the almost 100 pages of prefatory material, as well as the series of dramatis personae and indices, he has provided us with 1,645 pages of densely printed text—26 per year of Keynes’s life: the count per year is 11.4 in volume 1, 40.2 in volume 2, and 60.1 in volume 3. Other biographers have a different balance: Harrod 1951 works out at 10.4 pages per year and has the three periods running 9.4, 11.9, and 21.3; Moggridge 1992 comes to 13.3 pages per year and

Method and Marshall

Economists, or rather some of the most gifted spirits among them, have continued in recent years to conduct a running debate on the more elemental, though by no means more elementary, topic of what sort of a study economics is, and what it is all about. This is a topic which, when I started to read economics at Cambridge in 1910, it was not, I think, fashionable among us to think much about — less fashionable, I dare say, than it may have been a few years previously, when the separate course in economics had not yet been extracted like Eve from the rib of the Moral Sciences Tripos. To us, I think, it seemed a topic more suitable for discussion by Germans than by Englishmen. There was on our reading-list what I have since come to regard as a good, if dry, book about it, J.N. Keynes’s Scope and Method of Political Economy, but to be quite honest I doubt if many of us read it. We thought we knew pretty well what sort of things we wanted to know about, and were glad enough to take the counsel given by Marshall himself near the beginning of the Principles (p. 27),1 ‘the less we concern ourselves with scholastic enquiries whether a certain consideration comes within the scope of economics the better’.2

Money and power : essays in honour of L.S. Pressnell

English banks and business cycles, 1848-1880, M.Collins credit, morals and sunspots - the financial boom of the 1860s and trade cycle theory, P.L.Cottrell structure and performance in British banking, 1870-1939, F.Capie the mechanism of the supply of money in the United Kingdom, 1873-1913, F.Capie Keynes as a monetary historian, D.E.Moggridge a merchant bank at war - the house of Morgan 1914-18, K.Burk creating the myth of consensus - public opinion and Britains return to the gold standard in 1925, R.Boyce a shaft of Baltic pine - negotiating the Anglo-American-Canadian trade agreements of 1938, I.Drummond and N.Hillmer cheap money and debt management in Britain, 1932-51, S.Howson.

Keynes as a Monetary Historian

Maynard Keynes enjoyed history and historical scholarship. As a schoolboy at Eton he began his own enquiries into the Keynes family tree and eventually established to his own satisfaction the identity of his Norman forbears who came to England with William the Conqueror. When he was a Cambridge undergraduate, his first publication, other than reports of Union debates, was a review of Volume VII of The Cambridge Modern History (JMK, XI, pp. 50–27).1 He continued to enjoy history in later life as a reviewer (JMK, X, pp. 60–2; XI, pp. 542–61; XXVIII, pp. 287–94), as an editor of the Economic Journal and its economic history supplement and as an interested layman (JMK, XXI, p. 561; XXII, p. 135), as well as branching out on a substantial scale as a biographer and an intellectual historian competent well beyond his own subject of economics. 2

The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. Volume XXV. Activities 1940-1944. Shaping the Post-War World. The Clearing Union.@@@The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. Volume XXVI. Activities 1941-1946. Shaping the Post-War World. Bretton Woods and Reparations.

1. Bretton Woods and after, April 1944-March 1946 2. Commercial policy, December 1941-December 1945 3. Reparations, September 1941-December 1945.

Harry Johnson, Keynes, and Keynesian Economics

David Laidler arrived in Chicago from the University of Syracuse in 1960. At Chicago he learned his monetary economics from Harry Johnson’s 1960–61 lecture course and, after a year teaching at the LSE, in the 1962–63 Money Workshop at Chicago (both of which Harry had taken over because Milton Friedman was on leave). David was involved with Harry in the founding of the British Money Study Group in 1969 and found Harry’s advice invaluable when moving to Manchester in 1969 and Western Ontario in 1975 (Laidler, 2000). He also surveyed Harry’s contributions to macroeconomics in 1984 and had Harry playing an important role in the development of the Phillips curve as a policy menu in a 1997 paper. In these circumstances, it seems more than appropriate to honour David with a paper on Harry Johnson.