Janus: The Papers of Richard Ferdinand Kahn

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The Papers of Richard Ferdinand Kahn

Title	Published writing
Reference	RFK/1
Covering Dates	1929–1989
Extent and Medium	3 boxes; paper

King's/PP/RFK/1 contains:

'The relation of home investment to unemployment', in 'Economic Journal', Vol. XLI, No.162, June 1931, pp.173-98. The file contains assorted papers comprising newscuttings, 1929-35; pamphlets 'Can Lloyd George do it?' (1929) and 'How to tackle Unemployment' (1930); a typed letter signed from Colin Clark to RFK concerning imports and inflation, 14 Apr. 1931; an off-print of the article; and 'International questions relating to public works', a paper produced by the League of Nations Monetary and Economic Conference, 1933.
18 items in envelope; paper.

1929–1935

'The financing of public works: a note', in 'Economic Journal', Vol. XLII, No.167, September 1932, pp.492-5. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Sept. 1932

'Decreasing costs: a note on the contributions of Mr Harrod and Mr Allen', in 'Economic Journal', Vol. XLII, No.168, December 1932, pp.657-61. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Dec. 1932

'Public works and inflation', in the 'Journal of the American Statistical Association', Supplement, March 1933, pp.168-73. The file comprises a typescript and copy typescript of the article.
2 items in envelope; paper.

Mar. 1933

'The elasticity of subtitution and the relative share of a factor', in 'Review of Economic Studies', Vol. 1, No.1, October 1933, pp.72-8. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Oct. 1933

'Some notes on ideal output', in 'Economic Journal', Vol. XLV, No. 177, March 1935, pp.1-35. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Mar. 1935

'Two applications of the concept of elasticity of substitution', in 'Economic Journal', Vol. XLV, No. 178, June 1935, pp.242-5. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

June 1935

Review of L. E. Hubbard 'Soviet Money and Finance' (London: Macmillan, 1936), for the 'New Statesman and Nation', 29 August 1936, p.296. The file comprises a cutting of the review.
1 item in envelope; paper.

29 Aug. 1936

'Dr Neisser on secondary employment: a note', in 'Review of Economic Statistics', Vol. XVIII, No. 3, August 1936, pp.144-7. The file comprises an issue of the journal.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Aug. 1936

'Mr Paine and rationalisation: a note', in 'Economica', New Series No. 11, August 1936, pp.327-9. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Aug. 1936

Review of A. D. Gayer 'Public works in prosperity and depression' (London: Macmillan, 1935), in 'Economic Journal', Vol. XLVI, No. 183, September 1936, pp.491-3. The file comprises a cutting from the printers.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Sept. 1936

Review of a report on the milk marketing scheme. The file comprises an offprint of a review of 'Report of the committee of investigation for England on complaints made by the central milk distributive committee and the parliamentary committee of the cooperative congress as to the operation of the milk marketing scheme, 1933' (London: HMSO, 1936), in 'Economic Journal', Vol. XLVI, No. 183, September 1936, pp.554-9.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Sept. 1936

'The problem of duopoly', in 'Economic Journal', Vol. XLVII, No. 185, March 1937, pp.1-20. The file contains assorted papers comprising autograph manuscript notes, off-prints and letters concerning duopoly, including from letters from M. Newman and E. Chamberlin, Aug. and Sept. 1930. The material in this file and in 1/14 relates initially to the abortive preparations for publication in the early 1930s, of RFK's Fellowship Dissertation, in which duopoly would figure. The notes were taken up again for the 1937 article.
13 items in folder in envelope; paper.

1929–1937

'The problem of duopoly', in 'Economic Journal', Vol. XLVII, No. 185, March 1937, pp.1-20. The file contains autograph manuscript and typescript drafts on duopoly and oligopoly, including copy typescript extracts from RFK's Fellowship Dissertation with autograph manuscript amendments and expansions; autograph manuscript drafts of 'Chapter [blank space]: the problem of oligopoly' and 'Chapter [blank space]: unilateral equilibrium', marked extensively by J. V. Robinson; and an off-print of the article. The material in this file and in 1/13 relates initially to the abortive preparations for publication in the early 1930s, of RFK's Fellowship Dissertation, in which duopoly would figure. The notes were taken up again for the 1937 article.
7 items in folder in envelope; paper.

1930–1937

'A rejoinder' (to some comments on Mr Kahn's review of 'Prosperity and depression'), in 'Economic Journal', Vol. XLVIII, No. 190, June 1938, pp.333-6. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

June 1938

Review of E. Lundberg 'Studies in the theory of economic expansion' (London: P. S. King, 1937), in 'Economic Journal', Vol. XLVIII, No. 190, June 1938, pp.265-8. The file comprises a cutting of the review.
1 item in envelope; paper.

June 1938

Review of E. G. Nourse and H. B. Drury 'Industrial price policies and economic progress' (Washington: The Brookings Institution, 1938), Economic Journal, Vol. XLIX, No. 194, June 1939, pp.321-3. The file comprises a cutting of the review.
1 item in envelope; paper.

June 1939

'Tariffs and the terms of trade', in 'Review of Economic Studies', Vol. XV (1), No. 37, 1947-8, pp.14-19. The file comprises an offprint of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

1947–1948

'The 1948 budget: an economist's criticism', in 'The Listener', 6 May 1948. The file comprises a cutting of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

6 May 1948

'Our economic complacency', The Listener, 3 February 1949. The file comprises a cutting of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

3 Feb. 1949

'Professor Meade on planning', in 'Economic Journal', Vol. LIX, No. 233, March 1949, pp.1-16. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Mar. 1949

'A possible intra-European payments scheme', in 'Economica', November 1949, pp.293-304. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Nov. 1949

'The dollar shortage and devaluation', in 'Economia Internazionale', Vol. III, No. 1, February 1950, pp.293-304. The file comprises an issue of the journal.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Feb. 1950

'The European payments union', in 'Economica', August 1950, pp.306-16. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Aug. 1950

'Home and export trade', in 'Economic Journal', Vol. LXI, No. 242, June 1951, pp.279-89. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

June 1951

Review of T. Wilson and P. W. S. Andrews (eds.) 'Oxford studies in the price mechanism' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951), in 'Economic Journal', Vol. LXII, No. 245, March 1952, pp.119-30. The file comprises an off-print of the review.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Mar. 1952

Review of B. Ohlin 'The problem of employment stabilization' (New York: Columbia University Press, 1949), in 'American Economic Review', Vol. XLII, No. 1, March 1952, pp.180-2. The file contains a copy typescript with covering carbon typed letters, signed from RFK to the editor, 15 Jan. 1952, and an off-print of the review.
2 items in envelope; paper.

Jan. 1952-Mar. 1952

'Comments' (on monetary policy and the crisis), 'Bulletin of the Oxford University Institute of Statistics', Vol. 14, Nos. 4 and 5, April and May 1952, pp.147-53. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Apr. 1952-May 1952

'Britain's economic position, 1952', in 'The Listener', 3 July 1952. The file comprises an issue of the journal.
1 item in envelope; paper.

3 July 1952

'Comments' (on monetary policy again), 'Bulletin of the Oxford University Institute of Statistics', Vol. 14, No. 8, August 1952, pp.278-80. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Aug. 1952

'International regulation of trade and exchanges', in 'Banking and Foreign Trade' (London: Institute of Bankers, Europa Publications, 1952). The file comprises 2 off-prints of the article, one annotated by RFK.
2 items in envelope; paper.

1952

'The case for cheap money', in 'Financial Times', 3 and 4 June 1954. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

3 June 1954–4 June 1954

'The convertibility risk', in 'Financial Times', 10 September 1954. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

10 Sept. 1954

'Some notes on liquidity preference', in 'Manchester School of Economic and Social Studies', September 1954, pp.229-57. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Sept. 1954

'Lord Keynes and the balance of payments', in 'The Listener', Vol. LV, No. 1415, 10 May 1956. The file comprises an issue of the journal.
1 item in envelope; paper.

10 May 1956

'An answer to the capital question', in 'Westminster Bank Review', August 1956, pp.1-26. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Aug. 1956

'A positive contribution?', in 'Bulletin of the Oxford University Institute of Statistics', Vol. 19, No. 1, February 1957, pp.63-8. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Feb. 1957

'Exercises in the analysis of growth', in 'Oxford Economic Papers', New Series, Vol. 11, No. 2, June 1959, pp.143-56. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

June 1959

'The budget I should like to see', in 'Financial Times', 13 April 1961. The file comprises a cutting of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

13 Apr. 1961

'Selected essays on employment and growth' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972). The file contains correspondence with the publisher concerning British, Italian and Japanese editions, translations and royalties.
2 files in envelope; paper.

1971–1984

'The international monetary system', in 'American Economic Review', Vol. LXIII, No. 2, May 1973, pp.181-8. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

May 1973

'SDRs and aid', in 'Lloyds Bank Review', No. 110, October 1973, pp.1-18. The file comprises an issue of the journal.
1 item in envelope; paper.

Oct. 1973

'Challenging the "elegant and striking" paradoxes of the New School' (with M. Posner), in 'The Times', 17 April 1974. The file comprises a cutting of the article.
1 item in envelope with 1/44; paper.

17 Apr. 1974

'Theory dogged by its assumptions' (with M. Posner), in 'The Times', 18 April 1974. The file comprises a cutting of the article.
1 item in envelope with 1/43; paper.

18 Apr. 1974

'Cambridge economics and the balance of payments' (with M. Posner), 'London and Cambridge Economic Bulletin', No. 85, July 1974, pp.19-32. The file comprises an issue of the journal.
1 item in envelope; paper.

July 1974

'Why an incomes policy remains essential' (with M. Posner), in 'Financial Times', 22 August 1974. The file comprises a photocopy of a cutting of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

22 Aug. 1974

'What Keynes really said', in 'Sunday Telegraph', 2 September 1974. The file contains photocopies of a typescript and cutting, together with typescripts of scripts for RFK's broadcasts 'Keynes and inflation', 26 Apr. 1956 and 'Keynes and the balance of payments', 30 Apr. 1956; an extract of evidence given by RFK to the Committee on the working of the monetary system, 23 Oct. 1958; photocopies of letters to 'The Times', Apr. 1974; a cutting of a piece in 'Sunday Telegraph' by Patrick Hutber, City Editor, 15 Sept. 1974 and notes on him by RFK; and a review by John Vaizey of RFK 'Selected essays on employment and growth' (1972) in 'New Statesman', 12 May 1975.
1 file in envelope; paper.

1956–1975

'On re-reading Keynes', Fourth Keynes Lecture in Economics, 6 Nov. 1974, in 'Proceedings of the British Academy', Vol. LX, 1974, pp.361-92 and Oxford University Press, 1975. The file contains printed pamphlets annotated by RFK.
4 copies in envelope; paper.

1974–1975

'Thoughts on the behaviour of wages and monetarism', in 'Lloyds Bank Review', No.119, January 1976, pp.1-11. The file contains part of the journal.
1 file in envelope; paper.

Jan. 1976

'Inflation - a Keynesian view', in 'Scottish Journal of Political Economy', Vol. XXIII, No. 1, February 1976, pp.11-16. The file contains an off-print of the article with a covering typed letter signed from the journal, 18 Mar. 1976.
2 items in envelope; paper.

Feb. 1976-Mar. 1976

'Political attitudes involved in teaching economics', in 'Oxford Review of Education', Vol. 2, No. 1, 1976, pp. 91-5. The file comprises an off-print of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

1976

'Unemployment as seen by the Keynesians', in G. D. N. Worswick (ed.) 'The concept and measurement of involuntary unemployment' (London: Allen and Unwin, 1976), pp.19-25. The file comprises a photocopy of the chapter.
1 item in envelope; paper.

1976

'Malinvaud on Keynes: review article', in 'Cambridge Journal of Economics', Vol. 1, 1977, pp. 375-88. The file contains a photocopied typescript of Malinvaud's second Marshall Lecture, May 1978; autograph manuscript notes taken by RFK; an off-print of the article; correspondence with Kurt Rothschild after publication, 1978; and notes by J. V. Robinson.
1 file in envelope; paper.

1977–1978

'Some aspects of the development of Keynes's thought', in 'Journal of Economic Literature', Vol. XVI, June 1978, pp. 545-59. The file contains photocopies of the proof and of the article.
2 items in envelope; paper.

June 1978

'The making of Keynes's General Theory' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984). The file contains correspondence with Angelo Porta and publishers concerning the editing, publication and translation of RFK's Raffaele Mattioli lectures, given at Luigi Bocconi University, Milan, in 1978, together with photocopies of an autograph manuscript and amendments, and reviews.
4 files and 1 bundle in 3 envelopes; paper.

1978–1987

'Rostas, L.', entry in J. Eatwell, M. Milgate and P. Newman (eds.) 'The New Palgrave: A dictionary of economics' Vol IV (London: Macmillan, 1987), pp.222-3. The file comprises a typescript of the article.
1 item in envelope; paper.

1987

The economics of the short period (London: Macmillan, 1989). The file contains a photocopy, made in 1986, of RFK's Fellowship Dissertation, submitted 7 Dec. 1929.
1 bundle in envelope; paper.

1986

The economics of the short period (London: Macmillan, 1989). The file contains a publishing contract with the Macmillan Press, 13 Jan. 1987, and related correspondence, 1987-9.
1 file in envelope; paper.

1987–1989

The economics of the short period (London: Macmillan, 1989). The file contains page and cover proofs, with several alterations to typographical errors by RFK on early pages, and covering letters from the publisher, 3 June and 25 Aug. 1988.
1 folder in envelope; paper.

1988

The economics of the short period (London: Macmillan, 1989). The file contains typescript drafts with autograph manuscript amendments of the introduction; a photocopied typescript of a piece on Gerald Shove, 1986 (published as 'Shove, G. F.', entry in J. Eatwell, M. Milgate and P. Newman (eds.) 'The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics' vol. IV (London: Macmillan, 1987) p.327-8; an autograph manuscript autobiography for inclusion by C. Marcuzzo in 'Richard F. Kahn. A disciple of Keynes', 1988. . KCC/PP/RFK/1/61. Xerox TS bibliography of RFK. 1980s. Paper, 1 file in envelope. Blank pages not foliated.
1 file in envelope; paper.

1986–1989