A Century of Economics: 100 Years of the Royal Economic Society and the Economic Journal

This volume celebrates the distinguished history of the society and of the journal and their central contribution to the development of economics. The firt part of the book examines the history of the society lookin gat its founding and early years, Keynes' editorship of the Journal, biographies of the leading figures and a list of the society's publications. The second part relates more directly to the journal and includes distinguished articles on key issues that were prominent in the pages of the journal before the Second World War. Also in this section, Richard Stone, Frank Hahn, Paul Samuelson, David Hendry and Martin Weitzman reconsider key articles of their own which first appeared in the journal.