Robin Matthews: A Tribute (2010)

Geoffrey Harcourt

Chapter 20 in On Skidelsky’s Keynes and Other Essays, 2012, pp 314-316 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Robin Matthews held the two most senior chairs of economics in the UK – the Drummond Chair at Oxford (1965–75, succeeding John Hicks) and the Chair of Political Economy at Cambridge, ‘Marshall’s Chair’, (1980–91, succeeding Brian Reddaway). His many contributions to the discipline, the profession and the community make it abundantly clear why. He described his empirical work as economic history written in the style of an economist. His teaching, research and administrative duties over the years made him more and more aware of the inadequacies of ‘the conventional model of rational individualistic utility maximisation,so that increasingly his] interests moved toward the institutional and psychological underpinnings of economic behaviour’.

Keywords: Political Economy; Trade Cycle; Full Employment; Economic History; Administrative Duty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230348646_21

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