Sidney Weintraub and American Post Keynesianism: 1938-1970
Abstract
Sidney Weintraub (1914-1983) was an American economist who spent most of his career
at the University of Pennsylvania. A distinguished economic theorist (and the author’s
father), he was a co-founder of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, and the leading
figure in the US in the early years of the Post Keynesian movement. This article shows
how the early development of American Post Keynesianism, despite claims to the contrary
by historians of Post Keynesianism, had no connection to the UK group centered around
Joan Robinson in Cambridge.
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E. Roy Weintraub
Professor Emeritus of Economics
Roy Weintraub was trained as a mathematician though his professional career has been
as an economist. Beginning in the early 1980s, his research and teaching activities
focused upon the history of the interconnection between mathematics and economics
in the twentieth century. This work, in the history of economics, has helped shape
the understanding of economists and historians: his General Equilibrium Theory (1985), Stabilizing
Dynamics (1991),
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