This volume of intellectual biography takes the Polish economist Micha Kalecki (1899-1970) from the shattering of his prosperous childhood, in Tsarist Łódź in the 1905 Revolution, to Cambridge and the failure of his co-operative research with John Maynard Keynes's supporters in Cambridge.
Jan Toporowski is Professor of Economics and Finance in the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Visiting Professor of Economics and Finance in the International University College of Turin, and Visiting Professor of Economics in the University of Bergamo.