It is extremely rare to have two brothers share the same vocation, the same discipline even the same research interest. Such is the case of the Alan and Wilfred Prest who became, in their own right, leading figures in public finance theory and its application. The two Englishmen, born more than...

In March 1938 Victor Gollancz’s Left Book Club published a book entitled Can Capitalism Last?, by Frederick Allen (the pseudonym of Denis Herbert Stott, 1909-1988). This was an original and ambitious attempt to synthesise Marx and Keynes, making deficient aggregate demand the fundamental...