Post-Keynesian Theory, Direct Action and Political Involvement

Geoffrey Harcourt

No 2010-13, Discussion Papers from School of Economics, The University of New South Wales

Abstract: In this paper I analyse how I became an economist and at the same time a democratic socialist and a Christian. I also explained how I became politically involved after my graduate studies at Cambridge in the late 1950s and started lecturing at Adelaide. When back in Cambridge, teaching in the 1960s this time, the war in Vietnam persuaded me to support direct action through the anti-war movement in South Australia when I returned to Adelaide in 1967. The 1960s and the events of the time did influence my approach to teaching and research. More concretely, I was persuaded that ideology and analysis were indissolubly mixed and that one’s stance should always be made explicit. How this influenced what I did in my years in Adelaide, and then from 1982 back in Cambridge, along with my earlier experiences, are all described in the paper.

Keywords: Political Economy; Political and Religious Beliefs; Ideology and Analysis; Direct Action (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A0 A1 A2 B0 B2 B3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2010-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-his, nep-pke and nep-pol
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://research.economics.unsw.edu.au/RePEc/papers/2010-13.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Unavailable: Back-end server is at capacity

Related works:
Journal Article: Post-Keynesian theory, direct action and political involvement (2011)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:swe:wpaper:2010-13

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Discussion Papers from School of Economics, The University of New South Wales Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Hongyi Li ().