Sidney Weintraub and American post Keynesianism: 1938-1970

摘要

My understanding of Sidney's transition from mainstream economist to post Keynesian economist tracks back to his earliest work in microeconomics, or what was then called "price theory." He started as a price theorist, a Marshallian theorist who wrote a long doctoral dissertation on questions of market structure, competition, monopoly pricing, and so on. That project took up his time from the period that he was in graduate school at New York University (NYU) in the late 1930s through the year spent as a special student at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1938-39. It was at LSE that he got to read the economics literatures, and also came into contact with Keynesian ideas through discussions, meetings, and collegial talks with individuals such as Nicholas Kaldor and Abba Lerner.