Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Photographs and Drawings
- HARRY JOHNSON
- Introduction
- 1 Toronto
- 2 Antigonish
- 3 England
- 4 North American Postgraduate
- 5 Cambridge Don
- 6 Cambridge Economist
- 7 Manchester
- 8 Chicago
- 9 Canada, Economic Nationalism, and Opulence, 1957–1966
- 10 Chicago: Money, Trade, and Development
- 11 LSE
- 12 Professional Life – Largely British
- 13 Money and Inflation
- 14 The International Monetary System
- 15 Harry's “Wicksell Period”
- 16 Stroke and After
- 17 Conclusion
- Sources
- Index
- Plate section
2 - Antigonish
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Photographs and Drawings
- HARRY JOHNSON
- Introduction
- 1 Toronto
- 2 Antigonish
- 3 England
- 4 North American Postgraduate
- 5 Cambridge Don
- 6 Cambridge Economist
- 7 Manchester
- 8 Chicago
- 9 Canada, Economic Nationalism, and Opulence, 1957–1966
- 10 Chicago: Money, Trade, and Development
- 11 LSE
- 12 Professional Life – Largely British
- 13 Money and Inflation
- 14 The International Monetary System
- 15 Harry's “Wicksell Period”
- 16 Stroke and After
- 17 Conclusion
- Sources
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
Harry was staying in Ottawa between the end of his summer as a civil servant and the start of his Toronto MA programme when events in eastern Canada irrevocably changed his career – and set him firmly on the road to becoming a professional economist. St. Francis Xavier University (known as St. F. X.) in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, suddenly found itself without an economist when one member of the department, Egbert Munzer, a former Minister of Economics in Weimar Germany, resigned to take up a post at the University of Toronto (where he taught until he went to Laval University in Quebec City in 1946) and the other member, the Reverend Joseph A. MacDonald, suffered a nervous breakdown. As a result, Daniel J. MacDonald, the President of St. F. X., wrote to Harry:
In conversation with Dr. Innis of Toronto University a few days ago he recommended you as a teacher of economics and is willing to give you whatever releases you need. Please tell me as soon as possible on what terms you would be willing to come here to teach for the coming year.
(St. F. X. Archives, RG5/10/20648, 8 September 1943)Harry was attracted. He was
on the one hand terrified by the prospect of having to motivate my own studies and on the other deeply bitten by geographical and social wanderlust and anxious to test my own ability to meet bigger challenges than had been my prospect thus far.
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- Harry JohnsonA Life in Economics, pp. 39 - 54Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008