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Introduction
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This symposium is a memorial to Professor W. B. Reddaway who was a patron of the Cambridge Journal of Economics. With his particular brand of applied economics Brian Reddaway made a major impact on how research was done in Cambridge and elsewhere. He spurned formalistic modelling, preferring a more realistic orientation, and generally framed his research within a broad Marshallian and Keynesian understanding of how economies operate. He had a strong preference for well presented statistical argument over econometric analysis. His interests lay in practical problems and he made major contributions in the areas of populations growth, productivity and technical change, the impact of tax systems on industry and international capital flows. As the Director of the Department of Applied Economics, he had a major influence on the research of others. His method dominated the teaching of statistics in Cambridge, and a background in Reddaway economics made Cambridge economics