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Part 1 Robertson the man: writing the life - received and unreceivedopinions; public self and private self; home and Eton; the land of lostcontent; a good war; infirm glory. Part 2 The mirror of literature: aliterary economist; the Robertson style; the style that was the man;Robertson through a looking glass; Alice's evidence; Alice figures. Part 3Robertson's economics I, the foundations: economics and the man; a study ofindustrial fluctuation; the cycle and the trend; material cause and finalcause; a plea for the present. Part 4 Robertson's economics II, development:banking policy and the price level; managing the short period - real andmonetary forces; lacking and all that; Robertsonian insights and Keynesianparallels; economics and nonsense. Part 5 Robertson, Keynes and the Keynesianrevolution: history versus equilibrium and the role of money; Keynes and thephilosophy of revolution; terms of engagement; the glow-worm and thelighthouse; "incorrigible confusion"; a question of sequence; afterwards - apostscript.