Nicholas Kaldor

by John Edward King

Book Overview

Nicholas Kaldor spent his childhood in Hungary before settling in London and absorbing the influences of Hayek and Keynes, among others. By the end of the 1930s, he had risen to the peak of his profession, and his work on equilibrium, welfare economics, trade cycles, growth theory, and the economics of 'total war' were seminal. His wartime writings influenced the creation of the huge social democratic majority that resulted in the Labour landslide...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230217257
• ISBN13: 9780230217256
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"