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Famous letter
He gained widespread recognition and attention in 1981 as the co-instigator of a letter to The Times signed
by 364 of Britain's best-known economists, questioning Margaret Thatcher's economic policy, with a
warning that it would only result in deepening the prevailing depression.
Frank Hahn, by his own admission, was influenced in economics by John Hicks, W. M. Gorman, Takashi
Negishi and Kenneth Arrow among others. He in turn influenced a large number of colleagues and
students.[3]
Death
He died in Cambridge on 29 January 2013, following a short illness.[2] He is survived by his wife Dorothy,
née Salter, whom he had married in 1946.
Major works
"The Share of Wages in the Trade Cycle", Economic Journal, vol 60 (1950).
"The Share of Wages in National Income", Oxford Economic Papers vol. 3 No. 2 (1951).
"The Rate of Interest in General Equilibrium Analysis", Economic Journal (1955).
"Gross Substitutes and the Dynamic Stability of General Equilibrium", Econometrica vol 26
(1958) pp. 169–70.
"The Patinkin Controversy", Review of Economic Studies vol. 19 (1960).
"The Stability of Growth Equilibrium", Quarterly Journal of Economics vol. 74, pp. 206–26
(1960).
"Money, Dynamic Stability and Growth", Metroeconomica vol. 13 No. 11 (August 1961).
"A Stable Adjustment Process for a Competitive Economy", Review of Economic Studies vol
39 pp. 62–5 (1962).
"A Theorem on Non-Tatonnement Stability" with T.Negishi, Econometrica vol. 30 No. 3
(1962).
"On the Stability of a Pure Exchange Equilibrium", International Economic Review, vol. 3
(May 1962), 206–13.
"The Stability of the Cournot Oligopoly Solution", Review of Economic Studies vol. 29
pp. 329–33 (1962).
"On the Disequilibrium Behavior of a Multi-Sectoral Growth Model", Economic Journal
(1963)
"The Theory of Economic Growth: A survey", with R.C.O.Matthews (1964), Economic
Journal vol 74 pp. 779–902 (1964).JSTOR 2228848 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/2228848)
"On Some Problems of Proving the Existence of an Equilibrium in a Monetary Economy" in
Theory of Interest Rates (1965), edited by Hahn and Brechling.
"Equilibrium Dynamics with Heterogeneous Capital Goods" Quarterly Journal of Economics
vol. 80 (1966) pp. 633–46.
"On Warranted Growth Paths", Review of Economic Studies, vol. 35, pp. 175–84 (1968).
"On Money and Growth", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking vol. 1 No. 2 (1969).
"Some Adjustment Problems", Econometrica vol. 38 No. 1 (January 1970).
General Competitive Analysis (1971), with K.J. Arrow.
"Equilibrium with Transactions Costs", Econometrica vol. 39 No. 3 (1971).
"The Winter of Our Discontent", Economica (1973).
"On Some Equilibrium Growth Paths" in Models of Economic Growth (1973), edited by
Mirrlees and Stern.
"On Transactions Costs, Inessential Sequence Economics and Money", Review of
Economic Studies vol. 40 No. 4 (October 1973).
On the Notion of Equilibrium in Economics (1974).
"Revival of Political Economy: The wrong issues and the wrong arguments", Economic
Record vol. 51 pp. 360–4 (1975).
"Keynesian Economics and General Equilibrium Theory: Reflections on some current
debates" in Microeconomic Foundations of Macroeconomics (1977), edited by Harcourt.
"Monetarism and Economic Theory", Economica Vol. 47 #185 (1980).
"General Equilibrium Theory" in Crisis in Economic Theory (1981) edited by Bell and Kristol.
Money and Inflation (1982).[7]
"Reflections on the Invisible Hand", Lloyd's Bank Review, April 1982.
"The Neo-Ricardians", Cambridge Journal of Economics (1982).
"Stability" in Handbook of Mathematical Economics (1982), edited by Arrow and Intriligator.
"On some difficulties of the utilitarian economist" in Sen, Amartya; Williams, Bernard, eds.
(1982). Utilitarianism and beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 187–198.
ISBN 9780511611964.
Equilibrium and Macroeconomics (1984).
Money, Growth and Stability (1985).
"Liquidity" in Handbook of Monetary Economics (1988), edited by Friedman and Hahn.
Critical Essay on Modern Macroeconomic Theory (1995) with R. M. Solow.
"A Remark on Incomplete Market Equilibrium" in Markets, Information and Uncertainty
(1999), edited by Chichilnisky.
"Notes on Sequence Economies, Transaction Costs and Uncertainty", with K.J. Arrow
Journal of Economic Theory vol. 86 No. 2 (1999).
References
1. Enciclopedia italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti, Volume 2, 1938, p. 548. (https://books.googl
e.com/books?id=kwQTAQAAMAAJ&q=%22hahn,+frank+horace%22+1925)
2. "Professor Frank Hahn: 1925 – 2013/" (http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/about/news/278-professor-
frank-hahn-1925-2013). Churchill College, Cambridge. January 2013. Retrieved 31 January
2013.
3. From a Draft dated 1988. A slightly revised version was published with the title
"Autobiographical Notes with Reflections," in Eminent Economists: their Life Philosophies,
edited by Michael Szenberg, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
4. Marcello Basili and Carlo Zappia (2005). "An interview with Frank Hahn on the occasion of
his 80th birthday" (https://web.archive.org/web/20131016081021/http://www.econ-pol.unisi.i
t/zappia/interviewHahn.pdf) (PDF). Storia del Pensiero Economico. 2 (2): 13–18.
ISSN 1828-1990 (https://www.worldcat.org/issn/1828-1990). Archived from the original (htt
p://www.econ-pol.unisi.it/zappia/interviewHahn.pdf) (PDF) on 16 October 2013. Retrieved
31 January 2013.
5. F. A. Hayek acknowledged the help of "Miss Dorothy Salter (now Mrs. F. H. Hahn)" in his
Introduction to J. S. Mill's Letters (http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?Itemid=280&id=536&opt
ion=com_content&task=view).
6. "Professor Frank Hahn MA, PhD, FBA" (http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/fellows/96-Frank-Hahn).
Churchill College, Cambridge. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
7. Frank Hahn (December 1984). Money and Inflation (https://books.google.com/books?id=dQ
BUTajMVMAC). MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-58062-5.