Robertson, the son of a Church of England clergyman, was born in Lowestoft and educated as a scholar of Eton and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read Classics and Economics.Robertson worked closely with John Maynard Keynes in the 1920s and 1930s, during the years when Keynes was developing many of the ideas that later were incorporated in his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
Officer Trinity College in 1914, Dennis Robertson studied under Arthur Pigou , began as a lecture on political economy in 1930 and inherited the chair of Pigou in 1944, his whole activity is associated with Cambridge, except for the period from 1939 to 1944, when he was a professor of political economy at the University of London.
Robertson worked closely with John Maynard Keynes in the 1920s and 1930s, during the years when Keynes was developing many of the ideas that later were incorporated in his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. Keynes wrote that at that time, working with Robertson, it was good to work with someone who had a "completely first class mind".
A Study of Industrial Fluctuations
Economic Incentive
Money
The Control of Industry
Those Empty Boxes
Banking Policy and the Price Level
Essays in monetary theory
Lectures on economic principles
Growth, Wages, Money.
Utility and All That
Mr Keynes and Finance: A note
Mr. Keynes and the Rate of Interest
Some Notes on Mr Keynes's "General Theory of Employment
Robertson worked closely with John Maynard Keynes in the 1920s and 1930s, during the years when Keynes was developing many of the ideas that later were incorporated in his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
Fellow of Trinity College in 1914, Robertson studied under Pigou. Robertson began to lecture on political economy in 1930 and inherited the chair of Pigou in 1944.
