The Letters between John Hicks and Ursula Webb
September-December, 1935
edited by
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Eleonora Sanfilippo
with Toshiaki Hirai and Tamotsu Nishizawa
CONTRIBUTORS
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo is Professor of Economics at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy.
Eleonora Sanfilippo is Research Fellow in the History of Economic Thought at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy.
Toshiaki Ogose is Professor of Economics at the University of Hyogo, Japan.
Tamotsu Nishizawa is Professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University, Japan.
Toshiaki Hirai is Professor of Economics at Sophia University, Japan.
Irini Liakopoulou is a Ph.D student in the History of Economic Thought at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements iv
I. Introduction. Dear John, Dear Ursula (Cambridge and LSE, 1935)
M.C. Marcuzzo and E. Sanfilippo
II. The Correspondence
Photographs
Dramatis Personae
Names Index
III. The Hicks Papers
T. Ogose, T. Nishizawa and T. Hirai
IV. The Writings of J.R. Hicks
I. Liakopoulou
Acknowledgments
We would like to thank Irini Liakopoulou, Alexandra Saunders and Emiliano Vendittelli for invaluable research assistance; Mauro Baranzini, Roger Backhouse, Daniele Besomi, Victoria Chick, Guido Erreygers, Omar Hamouda, Donald Moggridge, Nerio Naldi, Tiziano Raffaelli, Alessandro Roncaglia and Annalisa Rosselli for comments, suggestions and help in clarifying various matters. We are also particularly indebted to Sue Howson for her precious help in reconstructing events and circumstances referred to in the letters.
In the compilation of the dramatis personae list, where the reader will find the relevant information about the people whose names are mentioned either in the Introduction or in the letters, we drew extensively on D. Besomi (2003)(ed.) The Interwar Papers and Correspondence of Roy Harrod, Vol. 3, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, S. Howson (2005) ‘Robbins Seminar’, paper presented at the HES Conference, Tacoma, WA., 24-27 June 2005 and D.E. Moggridge (1992) Maynard Keynes. An economist’s biography, London: Routledge.
