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Between The Trade Cycle and the Galton Lecture : a reappraisal of the intellectual exchange between Harrod and Keynes in early 1937

Alice Martini & Luca Spataro

European Journal of the History of Economic Thought2026https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2026.2628537article
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Abstract

This paper revisits a significant moment in the intellectualexchange between Roy Harrod and John Maynard Keynes: theearly months of 1937. Archival sources—including the involve-ment of Dennis Robertson—document their fertile discussion ofHarrod’s The Trade Cycle (1936) and Keynes’s Galton Lecture(1937). Textual evidence reveals converging reflections on tech-nical progress, demographic change, and the macroeconomic roleof public policy. Although the two works address distinct analyt-ical horizons, the paper shows a reciprocal intellectual influencebetween Harrod and Keynes, highlighting their shared effort toextend macroeconomic analysis beyond the short-run frameworkof The General Theory.

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@article{alice2026,
  title        = {{Between The Trade Cycle and the Galton Lecture : a reappraisal of the intellectual exchange between Harrod and Keynes in early 1937}},
  author       = {Alice Martini & Luca Spataro},
  journal      = {European Journal of the History of Economic Thought},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/09672567.2026.2628537},
}

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