ABSTRACT
When it first became known that Sir Dennis Robertson was editing for publication the three-term course in economic principles which he had given at Cambridge since the war, some may have thought—as did the present writer—that this was a pity. But, now that publication is complete, it is clear that Sir Dennis knew best. For, with characteristic stylistic insight, he has perceived that by preserving the lecture form he avoids the necessity of all sorts of technical apparatus of little intrinsic interest, while permitting himself the liberty of asides, inappropriate in a severer framework. It is an excellent introduction for beginners—not children, of course, but beginners of reasonably mature years, capable of treating economics as a serious subject. It is only necessary to compare any small sequence of paragraphs with a sequence of similar length in the more popular textbooks of the day to realise that here is a texture and weight of quite a different order.
