Kaldor, Nicholas Baron Kaldor Of Newnham, 1908-1986
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1908 · died 1986
Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor, born Káldor Miklós, was a Hungarian-born British economist. He developed the "compensation" criteria called Kaldor–Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons (1939), derived the cobweb model, and argued for certain regularities observable in economic growth, which are called Kaldor's growth laws. Kaldor worked alongside Gunnar Myrdal to develop the key concept Circular Cumulative Causation, a multicausal approach where the core variables and their linkages are delineated.
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Papers including correspondence, drafts, lecture notes, memoranda, papers and research notes.
Kaldor Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
Correspondents
WILLIAM MAURICE ALLEN, Correspondence 1961-9, Bank of England Archives
SIDNEY DELL, Correspondence 1958-86, Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, Oxford
HUGH TODD NAYLOR GAITSKELL, Correspondence 1950s, Gaitskell Papers, University College London
ROY FORBES HARROD, Correspondence 1938, 1963-5, Harrod Papers, Chiba University of Commerce
RALPH GEORGE HAWTREY, Correspondence 1930-40, 1979, Hawtrey Papers, Churchill Archive Centre, Churchill College Cambridge
RICHARD FERDINAND KAHN, Correspondence 1950s, Kahn Papers, Modern Archives Centre, King’s College Cambridge
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, Correspondence 1931-42, Keynes Papers, Modern Archives Centre, King’s College Cambridge
FRITZ MACHLUP, Correspondence 1938-78, Machlup Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University
JAMES EDWARD MEADE, Correspondence 1952-82, Meade Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1944-72, Robbins Papers, BLPES
JOAN VIOLET ROBINSON, Correspondence 1934-7, Joan Robinson Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
PIERO SRAFFA, Correspondence 1950-60, Sraffa Papers, Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge
JACOB VINER, Correspondence 1936, 1938, Viner Papers, Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
Printed material
ODNB; New Palgrave III 3-8; IESS
John E. King, Nicholas Kaldor (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Portraits
G.C. Harcourt, ‘Nicholas Kaldor, 12 May 1908-30 September 1986’, Economica 55: 159-70