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Anyone interested in studying "creative communities" of economists
would be well-served to read the volume _Economists in Cambridge: A
study through their correspondence, 1907-1946_, edited by Cristina
Marcuzzo and Annalisa Rosselli.
Regardless of your perspective on how to properly define or analyze a
"creative community", this collection is an invaluable resource. The
essays in the collection analyse over 2,800 letters written between
ten leading economist who were either at Cambridge (Pigou, Keynes,
Kahn, Joan Robinson, Robertson, Sraffa, Kaldor) or who were important
in shaping economics there (Harrod and Hayek) between 1921 and 1946.
The authors examined every known extant letter between these ten
people and so provide information of a type that would be rare for any
scholarly community.
Brad Bateman
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