ABSTRACT

Between the two world wars, there were still distinct traditions or ‘schools’ in economics. But interaction by correspondence and travel between the various centers of learning was increasing and there was a widespread expectation that the various traditions were merging into a unified international neoclassical discipline, perhaps even a science. With the exception, perhaps, of the relationship between the London School of Economics and Cambridge, there was in or around 1930, as yet little sense of controversial opposition between the various traditions but instead more of an appreciation of what they could learn from each other.