Sidney Weintraub

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Sidney Weintraub (1914-1983) was one of the most prominent American members of the Post-Keynesian school in economics. He was born in New York, and was initially educated in the United States. He studied at the London School of Economics in 1938-39 but the outbreak of the Second World War forced him to return home. He received his PhD from New York University in 1941.

He worked for the US government during the war, and subsequently in the New School for Social Research. In 1952 he was appointed Professor in Economics in the University of Pennsylvania where he remained for the rest of his career.

Sidney Weintraub was the founder and co-editor of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics together with Paul Davidson.

His son, E. Roy Weintraub, also made his career as an academic economist (although he was initially trained as a mathematician), and is currently a Professor of Economics in Duke University.

[edit] Major works

  • Price Theory, 1949.
  • Income and Employment Analysis, 1951.
  • "A Macroeconomic Approach to the Theory of Wages", 1956, AER.
  • Wage Theory and Policy, 1956.
  • "The Micro-Foundations of Aggregate Demand and Supply", 1957, EJ.
  • An Approach to the Theory of Income Distribution, 1958.
  • A General Theory of the Price Level, Output and Income Distribution, 1959.
  • "Classical Keynesianism: A plea for its abandonment", in Weintraub, 1961.
  • Classical Keynesianism, Monetarism and the Price Level, 1961.
  • Intermediate Price Theory, 1964.
  • A Keynesian Theory of Employment, Growth and Income Distribution, 1966.
  • "Keynes and the Monetarists", 1971, Canadian JE.
  • "A Tax-Based Incomes Policy", with H. Wallich, 1971, JEI.
  • "An Incomes Policy to Stop Inflation", 1971, Lloyds Bank Review.
  • "Rising Demand Curves in Price Level Theory", 1971, Oxford EP.
  • "The Full Employment Model: A critique", with E. Roy Weintraub, 1972, Kyklos.
  • "Money as Cause and Effect", with P. Davidson, 1973, EJ.
  • "The Keynesian Light that Failed", 1975, Nebraska JEB.
  • "Revision and Recantation in Hicksian Economics", 1976, JEI.
  • "The Price Level in an Open Economy", 1977, Cyklos.
  • Keynes, Keynesians and Monetarists, 1978.
  • Capitalism's Inflation and Unemployment Crisis, 1978.

[edit] External links

[edit] Autobiographical article

  • "A Jevonian Seditionist: Mutiny to Enhance the Economic Bounty", in J.A. Kregel (ed.), Recollections of Eminent Economists, 1988.
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