Harry Johnson

D. E. Moggridge has been professor of Economics at the University of Toronto since 1974. He previously served as a Research Fellow and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge from 1967 to 1975. Professor Moggridge was invited by the Royal Economics Society in 1969 to be an editor of The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, 30 volumes of which appeared between 1970 and 1989. His coeditor of the volumes was Elizabeth Johnson, wife of the subject of this book. Professor Moggridge is also the author of British Monetary Policy, 1924-1931 (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Keynes (1976, third edition 1993), and Maynard Keynes: An Economist's Biography (1992). He also coedited with Susan Howson The Wartime Diaries of Lionel Robbins and James Meade, 1943-45 (1990) and The Cabinet Office Diary of James Meade, 1944-46 (1990). Professor Moggridge served as President of the History of Economics Society in 1988-89 and has also served as Review Editor of History of Political Economy since 1988.

'This is a fascinating account of a larger-than-life figure, with seemingly boundless energy, who not only helped shape international economics in the 1950s and 1960s but also became a missionary for Chicago-style economics in Britain and elsewhere.' Roger E. Backhouse, University of Birmingham

• 1. Toronto; 2. Antigonish; 3. England; 4. North American postgraduate; 5. Cambridge don; 6. Cambridge economist; 7. Manchester; 8. Chicago; 9. Canada, economic nationalism, and opulence, 1957–66; 10. Money, trade, and development; 11. LSE; 12. Professional life - largely British; 13. Money and inflation; 14. The international monetary system; 15. Harry's Wicksell period; 16. Stroke and after; 17. Conclusion.