Bonus materials

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The materials indexed in this page supplement the printed version of The Collected Interwar Papers and Correspondence of Roy Harrod. Especial thanks are due to the copyright holders who have granted permission to reproduce images and transcriptions of documents.

(the dark side is that some other materials, included in the paper version, had to be omitted from this site due to copyright problems: see list. See also supplementary materials: Addenda, debates, reflections, etc. stimulated by the Harrod papers and correspondence and the Updates, listing the materials found after the publication of the printed edition)

• Gallery of Portraits
• Harrod, "A Comment on the Questions for Discussion ": paper read before the Antwerp Chamber of Commerce, 11-13 July 1935 (annotated transcription).
• Harrod and Ragnar Frisch, exchange in October 1936: Harrod to Frisch, 1 October, and Frisch to Harrod, 16 October (full transcription of two letters found after the publication of the printed edition).
• Harrod, Correspondence with H. F. Scott-Stokes, 1920-63. 63 letters, transcribed by Charity Scott-Stokes.
• Harrod, "The means to reflation", Letter to The Economist, 22 July 1933.
• Abstracts of 604 letters to and from Harrod, from the Harrod Papers at the British Library.
• pdf scans of the following (listed in chronological order): 
  1. Harrod, paper on "Retributive Punishment", read before the Jovett Society, November 1921. The materials comprese a fragment beginning with an "Introduction", and a fuller draft. Original in the Harrod Collection, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, file 12.37.1 (reproduced with the kind permission of NUCBA's President, Dr. Hiroshi Kurimoto) (related correspondence: letters 32R; see note 1 for context). [pdf images, respectively 0.15 and 1.0 MB]
  2. Harrod, Paper on "The Self" (probably), read on 10 November 1922 before the Moral Science Club, Cambridge. Original in the Harrod Collection, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, file 12.36.1 (reproduced with the kind permission of NUCBA's President, Dr. Hiroshi Kurimoto) (related correspondence: letter 39R; see note 2 for context; see also letter 41R) ). [pdf image, 0.3 MB]
  3. Harrod, paper on "Talk". Original in the Harrod Collection, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, file 12.36.1 (reproduced with the kind permission of NUCBA's President, Dr. Hiroshi Kurimoto) (related correspondence: letter 21R; see note 1 for context). [pdf image, 1.3 MB]
  4. Harrod, handwritten notes accompanying Carl Menger's Grundsaetze der Volkswirtschaftslehre, 1923. Original in the Harrod Collection (Roybooks), Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration (reproduced with the kind permission of NUCBA's President, Dr. Hiroshi Kurimoto). [pdf image, 176 KB]
  5. Harrod, handwritten notes accompanying R. G. Hawtrey's The Economic Problem, 1926. Original in the Harrod Collection (Roybooks), Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration (reproduced with the kind permission of NUCBA's President, Dr. Hiroshi Kurimoto). [pdf image, 36 KB]
  6. Harrod to Keynes, 27 February 1933 (summarized as letter 287R) Original in Modern Archives Centre, King's College, Cambridge, The papers of John Maynard Keynes, file A/33/1/128. By kind permission of the Harrod family and the Provost and Scholars of King's College, Cambridge.
  7. Harrod, draft of untitled manuscript, probably destined to a book which does not seem to have been published, mid-1933; a later draft, typescript, is included in the present edition as Essay 12, "[Democracy and Economic Crisis]". Original in the Harrod Collection, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, file 11.8.1 (reproduced with the kind permission of NUCBA's President, Dr. Hiroshi Kurimoto) [pdf image, 1.3 MB]
  8. Harrod and others, draft of a letter to President Roosevelt, November 1933; typed, with Harrod's autograph corrections (the final version is included in the present edition as letter 329). Original in the Harrod Collection, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, file 4.27.2 (reproduced with the kind permission of NUCBA's President, Dr. Hiroshi Kurimoto). [pdf image, 0.4 MB].
  9. Oxford Economic Research Group (later Oxford Economists' Research Group), Questions for discussion (for context see Essay 17, note 5). First version (7 questions on 2 leaves), Revised questionnaire (17 questions on 4 pages), and "Suggestions for improvement of questionnaire No. II". Originals in the Harrod Collection, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, files 4.19.1, 4.18.1 and 4.2.2, respectively (reproduced with the kind permission of NUCBA's President, Dr. Hiroshi Kurimoto).
  10. Harrod, autograph report of the Oxford Economists' Research Group's interview to H. F. Scott-Stokes, 31 January 1936. Original in the Harrod Collection, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, file 5.1.7 (reproduced with the kind permission of NUCBA's President, Dr. Hiroshi Kurimoto) (related document: Essay 17, Notes on Interviews with Entrepreneurs ; see in particular note 11. This document is also cited in numerous letter in January and February 1936). [pdf image, 0.3 MB]
  11. H. F. Scott-Stoke's comments on the above, 26 February 1936. Original in the Harrod Collection, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, file 5.1.4 (reproduced with the kind permission of Charity Scott-Stokes and of NUCBA's President, Dr. Hiroshi Kurimoto) (pdf image).
  12. Harrod, autograph draft of "Notes on Interview with Entrepreneurs" (the engrossed copy is transcribed as Essay 17). Original in the Harrod Collection, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, file 4.24.3 (reproduced with the kind permission of NUCBA's President, Dr. Hiroshi Kurimoto) (related document: Essay 17, "Notes on Interview with Entrepreneurs"). [pdf image, 1 MB]
  13. J. M. Keynes, annotations in the margin of Harrod's The Trade Cycle. Early 1937. Original in Marshall library, Cambridge. By kind permission of the Provost and Scholars of King's College, Cambridge, the Marshall Library and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Cambridge, and Oxford University Press. Related correspondence: letter 647 and following.
  14. J. M. Keynes, notes on Harrod's The Trade Cycle. Early 1937, 1 page. Original in Modern Archives Centre, King's College, Cambridge, The papers of John Maynard Keynes, file CO/3/97. By kind permission of the Provost and Scholars of King's College, Cambridge. Related correspondence: letter 647 and following.
  15. Fragment by unidentified member of the Oxford Economists' Research Group, commenting upon Harrod's "Notes on Interview with Entrepreneurs" (Essay 17). Original in the Harrod Collection, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, file 4.23.2 (reproduced with the kind permission of NUCBA's President, Dr. Hiroshi Kurimoto) (related document: Essay 17, Notes on Interviews with Entrepreneurs ). [pdf image, 0.1 MB]
  16. Harrod, "[Business Experience and Economists' Assumptions]", Paper read before the 1937 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Manuscript (transcribed in the present edition as Essay 18). Original in the Harrod Collection, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business Administration, file 5.13.2 (reproduced with the kind permission of NUCBA's President, Dr. Hiroshi Kurimoto) (this paper is transcribed in this edition; see editorial notes for context). [pdf image, 0.5 MB]
  17. Correspondence relating to Keynes's "The Policy of Government Storage of Foodstuffs and Raw Materials", paper read by Shove before the British Association meeting (Cambridge, August 1938): Harrod to Keynes, 20 August 1938 (see transcription); Gerald Shove to Keynes, 21 August 1938; and Keynes to Shove, 23 August 1938. For context see notes to letter 812. Originals in Modern Archives Centre, King's College, Cambridge, The papers of John Maynard Keynes, file PS/6/247-53. By kind permission of the Harrod family and Provost and Scholars of King's College, Cambridge.
  18. J. M. Keynes, note on Tinbergen, (Keynes's copy) sent to Harrod, 21 September 1938, 1 page (see transcription). Original in Modern Archives Centre, King's College, Cambridge, The papers of John Maynard Keynes, file CO/11/290. By kind permission of the Provost and Scholars of King's College, Cambridge.

   

   

The Faculty of Economics of the University of Tokyo hosts, and maintains online, a collection "Keynes and Harrod, Letters and Memoranda", 227 items relating to Keynes and Harrod (see a brief description of the documents in the Editorial Introduction). Some of these documents are transcribed in the present edition (links to the corresponding original are provided).

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