Richard Kahn's fellowship dissertation: The fate of 'The Economics of the Short Period'

Nahid Aslanbeigui and Guy Oakes

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2011, vol. 18, issue 3, 381-405

Abstract: In 1930, Richard Kahn became a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, on the basis of his book-length dissertation 'The Economics of the Short Period.' It was finally published in the 1980s. Why did he not publish his thesis in the 1930s, when it would have made a substantial impact? We present two arguments. In 1932/33, Joan Robinson published many of Kahn's main ideas, rendering subsequent publication by him derivative. And by the mid-1930s, Kahn discovered that parts of his dissertation left untouched by Robinson were no longer new or distinctive because of rapid progress in research on imperfect and monopolistic competition.

Keywords: Richard Kahn; Joan Robinson; Economics of the Short Period; Imperfect competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1080/09672560903552629

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