Gerald Frank Shove (1887-1947)

Frank Gerald Shove was a close friend of Keynes and other protagonists in the economic debates in Cambridge during the 1920s and 1930s. Shove’s influence on those debates is not well documented because he published little and had all his notes destroyed after his death. This paper looks at Shove’s most significant contributions to the debates of the 1930s. Attention is concentrated on the debates over increasing returns and imperfect competition. The final section of the paper discusses the similarity of Shove’s methodological outlook to that of Keynes