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Title
Allyn Abbott Young / by Ramesh Chandra.
ISBN
9783030319816
3030319814
9783030319809
3030319806
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 348 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-31
Call Number
HB119.A2
Dewey Decimal Classification
330.1509
Summary
Allyn Young (1876-1929) was a deep thinker and achieved fame during his lifetime. His fame owes more to his style and influence as a teacher than his published work. His greatest fame as an author rests on a single economic paper on increasing returns and economic progress but he contributed much more as a mentor to his graduate students such as Frank Knight, Edward Chamberlin, and Lauchlin Currie at Harvard and to the undergraduate Nicholas Kaldor at the London School of Economics. He shot into international fame for his role as a member of the American delegation led by President Woodrow Wilson to negotiate peace at Paris after WWI. However, recent interest in Young is more due to his thought than to his contribution to the economics profession or public service. At the time of his death, he was working on two treatises, one on Money and the other on Economics. The one on Money was at a fairly advanced stage but no trace of either was found in his familys hasty departure from London after his untimely death. There is a general dearth of published material about Young, his thought and his life. His economic thought, apart from his views on growth theory and monetary economics, is relatively unknown. This volume offers a thematic approach to his contributions and biography.
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Series
Great thinkers in economics series.
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Print version: 9783030319809
1. Introduction
2. Intellectual Influences on Allyn Young
3. Nature, Scope and Method of Economics
4. Allyn Youngs Contribution to Growth Theory
5. Allyn Youngs Contribution to Economic Theory
6. Allyn Young on Applied Economics
7. Allyn Young on Money, Banking and Business Cycles
8. Allyn Youngs Role as an Author, Teach and Mentor
9. Youngs Estimate of his Contemporaries and Earlier Economists
10. Concluding Remarks.