ABSTRACT
Tracing the development of Nicholas Kaldor's economic thought is easier than accounting for his egalitarian Values. He was the only son to survive infancy in a well-established Jewish family in Budapest. After leaving Hungary, he was supported by his father for some years while he went to school and worked as a journalist. His father died the year he was appointed to the faculty of LSE. Kaldor never lived in Hungary again, though he was an adviser to the early non-Communist post–World War II Hungarian government in 1946 and elected an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1979. He kept as close contact as possible with his relations in Hungary during the years of war and communism, and brought his mother to England after World War II.
