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Fusing Indissolubly the Cycle and the Trend: Richard Goodwin’s Profound Insight

2012; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.2045257

1556-5068

G. C. Harcourt,

Political Economy and Marxism

I start with a personal note. I had the good fortune to be, first, a student of Dick Goodwin’s in the 1950s (in that as a Ph.D student at King’s, I went to his lectures on Central planning in India, see Goodwin (1982), Ch. 11, Goodwin (1983), Ch. 6), and then his colleague in the 1960s when I first lectured at Cambridge. He and I were Part I examiners in 1965. Richard Kahn was Chairman of examiners and Dick and I had not done all of the very detailed tasks that Richard as a meticulous but demanding chair required of us. Richard was (in)famous for his fierce temper and most people were scared stiff of it; but not Dick. When Kahn telephoned about our misdemeanours, luckily Dick answered the phone and stood by, smiling, occasionally putting in a short response, while Richard screamed down the phone. After a quarter of an hour even Kahn was exhausted so I received barely a scolding when Dick put me on the phone.