Michal Kalecki: An Intellectual Biography
Volume I Rendezvous in Cambridge 1899-1939
Published on 26. July 2013
Book
Hardback
XI, 184 pages
978-0-230-21186-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume of intellectual biography takes the Polish economist Micha Kalecki (1899-1970) from the shattering of his prosperous childhood, in Tsarist Lódz in the 1905 Revolution, to Cambridge and the failure of his co-operative research with John Maynard Keynes's supporters in Cambridge.
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Edition
2013 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XI, 184 p.
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
373 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-21186-5 (9780230211865)
DOI
10.1057/9781137315397
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Person
Jan Toporowski studied Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the University of Birmingham, both UK. He has worked in fund management, international banking, central banking and financial and economic consultancy. Since 2004 he has been teaching and researching at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Content
1. Early Years 2. In the Crucible of the Revolution 3. Economic Journalism 4. To Warsaw 5. At the Institute 6. The Socialist Discussions 7. The Enigma of the Business Cycle 8. Sweden 9. London 10. From London to Cambridge 11. Seeking Work Again 12. The First Synthesis of Theory 13. 'Kalecki and his Myrmidons' 14. Shared Ideas amid Mutual Incomprehension