ABSTRACT
These will be selective affectionate remembrances of times long gone by. Any errors in memory may themselves be of interest. Surprisingly, the bare biographical facts about Dick cannot be found in the 1999 Who’s Who in Economics (3rd edn), for the reason that its editors scandalously omitted to include Goodwin’s name. When I arrived at the Harvard Graduate School in 1935, already present were the two Sweezys (Alan and Paul); and also Abram Bergson, Alice Bourneuf, Wolfgang Stolper and Richard Musgrave. Memories still were fresh of earlier staff and students – Professors Lauchlin Currie and Allyn Young; students Emile Despres and Albert Hart, class of 1930; Moe Abramowitz and Walter Salant, class of 1934. But never in the 1935-1937 period did I ever hear the name of Richard Goodwin (class of 1934). I think it was early in 1938 that a lunchtime guest at Harvard’s Society of Fellows mentioned that a bright friend of his, one Richard Murphy Goodwin, would be soon returning to Harvard economics after his three years at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.
