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A collection gathering sixteen of Robertson’s essays, lectures, and reviews, as published in various books and periodicals overs the 1930s, including the controversial ‘Mr Keynes and the Rate of Interest’ in which Robertson attacked Keynes’s ‘liquidity-preference’ theory of the rate of interest, in response to which Keynes introduced his famous ‘finance motive’.

Keynes and Roberston’s theoretical differences contributed to a split between the pair whose close collaboration during the 1920s had resulted in several major works, although none were published under joint authorship. These included Keynes’s Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) and the Treatise on Money (1930), as well as Robertson’s Banking Policy and the Price Level (1926). In 1939, Robertson left Cambridge for a brief stint at the London School of Economics, before reconciling with Keynes whilst working together on the Bretton Woods Agreement, resulting in Robertson’s return to Cambridge in 1944, succeeding A.C. Pigou as Professor of Economics.

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