Alla conquista del consenso: una nota sui "Collected Interwar Papers and Correspondence of Roy Harrod"

Summary: Winning consent. A note on The Collected Interwar Papers and Correspondence of Roy Harrod, edited by Daniele Besomi (J.E.L. BO31). The three volumes of the Collected Interwar Papers and Correspondence of Roy Harrod, edited by Daniele Besomi, and published by Edward Elgar in 2003, are the outcome of more than a ten-year effort in collecting documents, and contacting hundred people and institutions. After having briefly drawn the attention on the vast amount of work that is below the edition of The Collected Interwar Papers and Correspondence of Roy Harrod, the two versions of the books, namely the paper edition and the experimental electronic version, are examined. Moreover, in order to test the search engine of the electronic version, a short research on the spread of the idea of Harrod’s foreign trade multiplier is attempted. Finally, the recent literature on Harrod’s dynamic theory is shortly reviewed.