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The Harrod-Domar Equation from Quesnay to Marx to Harrod and Domar

In: Economic Dynamics, Trade and Growth

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  • Walter Eltis

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Roy Harrod’s pioneering establishment of growth theory in the mainstream of modern economic analysis was one of the most significant legacies of the Keynesian revolution. He was close to Keynes from 1922 onwards and he saw the galley proofs of The General Theory in 1935. He was at the same time working independently on The Trade Cycle which he published in 1936, a few months after Keynes’s book. This contained the nucleus of his new dynamic economics which emerged as ‘An Essay in Dynamic Theory’ in 1939. In the Preface to The Trade Cycle Harrod writes, ‘Mr. Keynes, in his recent volume, The General Theory of Unemployment, Interest and Prices1, has developed certain important ideas concerning the relations between the demand for capital goods, the propensity of the community to save, and its general level of activity and income. Full use is made of these.’ (Harrod, 1936, p. vii). In this 1936 Preface he also writes of his intention to establish dynamic analysis, ‘An attempt has been made in this essay to adopt a procedure in relation to the factor of growth similar to that of static analysis, to seek, namely, for the moving equilibrium of a steady rate of growth ... The consequences of this attempt are embodied in my theory of the “dynamic determinants”’. (ibid., pp. viii–ix).

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  • Walter Eltis, 1998. "The Harrod-Domar Equation from Quesnay to Marx to Harrod and Domar," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Giorgio Rampa & Luciano Stella & A. P. Thirlwall (ed.), Economic Dynamics, Trade and Growth, chapter 1, pages 11-37, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-26931-0_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26931-0_2
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    1. Jamee K. Moudud, 2000. "Harrod versus Thirlwall: A Reassessment of Export-Led Growth," Macroeconomics 0012002, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Jamee K. Moudud, 2010. "Strategic Competition, Dynamics, and the Role of the State," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 4241.
    3. Jamee K. Moudud, 2000. "Finance in a Classical and Harrodian Cyclical Growth Model," Macroeconomics 0004036, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Jamee K. Moudud, 2000. "Harrod versus Thirlwall: A Reassessment of Export-Led Growth," Economics Working Paper Archive wp_316, Levy Economics Institute.
    5. Le Masne, Pierre & Dupuy, Romuald & Roman, Philippe, 2020. "From the accounts of Philosophie rurale to the physiocratic Tableau: François Quesnay as a precursor of national accounting," OSF Preprints e6zyr, Center for Open Science.

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