Word: harrod
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Back in 1849, when Henry Charles Harrod opened his shop purveying tea, soap and candles in Knightsbridge Village, highway robberies were still common in the area. Today, Knightsbridge is one of London's swankiest sections and the most visible evidence of the tea merchant's modest business venture, a domed and terra cotta Victorian version of a Spanish castle, stands right in its midst. "Just about every visitor to London goes to Harrods," boasts the store's 31-year-old chairman, Sir Hugh Fraser, who succeeded his father two years ago. "It ranks with Buckingham Palace...
Actually, the story of Keynes, who died in 1946, has been told earlier and better by such economists as Sir Roy Harrod, Alvin Hansen, Seymour Harris, Joseph Schumpeter, Robert Heilbroner and John Kenneth Galbraith. Where Lekachman differs from them is in his emphasis on Keynes's repeal...
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