An Accountant Among Economists

Conversations with Sir John R. Hicks

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ID4858535
AuthorsArjo Klamer (0000-0002-5793-0490, Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa., corresponding author)
Year1989
Volume3
Issue4
Pages167-180
Publication date1989-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Economic Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0895-3309 • E-ISSN: 1944-7965
PublisherAmerican Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1257/jep.3.4.167
OpenAlexW1987285800
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Sir John Hicks (1904-1989) has left an indelible impression on modern economic discourse. His Value and Capital (1939) stood as a model for neoclassical microeconomics as economists know it today. His condensation of Keynes's General Theory in the form of the IS / LM diagram became the core of Keynesian macroeconomics. In 1972, he was awarded the Nobel Prize (together with Kenneth Arrow) for his pioneering contributions to modern demand and welfare theory. Later, after his retirement from Oxford University in 1965, he seemed to change course. The older Hicks seemed to have drifted from the mainstream that the younger Hicks had helped to set into motion. The first of two conversations took place in Oxford in early December 1986. In June 1988 we talked again. I went to see Hicks in Blockley, a small village north of Oxford

Arrow · Economic history · Economics · Keynesian economics · Mainstream · Market economy · Neoclassical economics · Political science · Positive economics · Welfare · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · History · Law

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