A Portrait-Sketch of Michal Kalecki

Steindl, Josef

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Document type:: Works

Collection:: Josef Steindl Collection

Title:: A Portrait-Sketch of Michal Kalecki

Author:: Steindl, Josef

Scope:: Typoskript, 10 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1981

Source material date:: [vermutlich um 1981]

Language:: English

Note:: Fassung zur Publikation "A Personal Portrait of Michal Kalecki".

Related work:: Steindl, Josef: A Personal Portrait of Michal Kalecki. In: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1981, S. 590-596

Topic:: Economic history,economic theory,current developments

JEL Classification:: E11 [General Aggregative Models: Marxian, Sraffian, Kaleckian] B31 [History of Economic Thought: Individuals]

Shelfmark:: S/M.73.1

Access:: Free access

3 His horizon widened when he became a Rockefeller fellow and went to Sweden. While he stayed there two of his friends and collegues at the Warsaw Institute were dismissed for political reasons by order of the minister. Kalecki thereupon resigned his position as a matter of solidarity. He never returned to Poland until after the war. In the course of 1936 he learned, with understandable disappointment, that a famous English economist had just published ideas which were very similar to his own. He then went to England, first to the London School, then to Cambridge; in 194o he obtained a job at the Oxford Institute of Statistics This was a haven for economists from the continent (including myself); most British economists were in the Civil Service then Kalecki became the guiding spirit of this team which consisted mainly of people with left wing (labour) sympathies. We worked on the economic problems of the war, but also on post-war problems. As seen from the present perspective our attitude to reformist economic policy was positivistic: We knew what we wanted and how it should be done. Near the end of the war Kalecki, seing that post-war Oxford would not offer him a Career or recognition of his work, left for the International Labour Office in Canada, and in 1946 joined the staff of UNO as deputy director of a section of the Economic Department. He was responsible for the World Economic Reports. His stay at the UNO coincided with the

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