Recollections of a dinner for John Maynard Keynes, Washington, D.C., 1941

Abstract

This paper recounts my personal recollection of the small dinner meeting for Keynes during his first wartime visit to Washington, D.C. I recall the occasion well as it was a memorable one, and I have often told this story to students and friends. Despite the passage of time, I write about it now to get my story on the record as a part of my memoirs.

The paper also includes my comments on Roy Harrod's references to that dinner in his 1951 biography of Keynes, and a review of Keynes' correspondence following the dinner with some of the economists who were there.

Citation

Ostrander, F.T. (2002), "Recollections of a dinner for John Maynard Keynes, Washington, D.C., 1941", Samuels, W.J. and Biddle, J.E. (Ed.) A Research Annual (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 20 Part 1), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 43-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-4154(02)20021-8