His greatest fame as an author rests on a single economic paper on increasing returns and economic progress but he contributed much more as a mentor to his graduate students such as Frank Knight, Edward Chamberlin, and Lauchlin Currie at Harvard and to the undergraduate Nicholas Kaldor at the London School of Economics.
Ramesh Chandra received his PhD in Economics from the University of Strathclyde, UK, and studied economics at the Delhi School of Economics, University of California (Berkeley) and University of Glasgow. He has held professorships at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration and Indian Council of Research on International Economic Relations, India, among others. His research interests include Trade Policy and Growth, the relationship between Economic Thought and Development Economics, and the History of Economic Thought. He has published extensively in journals such as The Manchester School, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Asian Economics, Review of Political Economy, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Studies and Journal of Economic Issues.
Innehållsförteckning
1. Introduction.- 2. Intellectual Influences on Allyn Young.- 3. Nature, Scope and Method of Economics.- 4. Allyn Young’s Contribution to Growth Theory.- 5. Allyn Young’s Contribution to Economic Theory.- 6. Allyn Young on Applied Economics.- 7. Allyn Young on Money, Banking and Business Cycles.- 8. Allyn Young’s Role as an Author, Teach and Mentor.- 9. Young’s Estimate of his Contemporaries and Earlier Economists.- 10. Concluding Remarks.