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Economic Careers

Name: Economic Careers
Author: Keith Tribe
ISBN: 9780415147088

by Keith Tribe

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Overview

In this volume fourteen senior economists describe their early introduction to the study of economics and their contribution to the development of academic economics in Britain.
With experience covering a period stretching from the mid 1920s to the late 1960s, many of the contributors not only provide an insight into the role of university disciplines in the education system but describe their experience in wartime administration, or as government advisors. The interview format of the work makes for accessibility and readability in a sometimes arcane area of work.

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At least for economists themselves, surely the ultimate test of an economic theory is how well its proponents prosper. The focus of the 14 annotated interviews offered here however is not so much to judge between approaches as to trace the growth and development of the profession as a whole in Britain during a critical academic generation. Among those recalling their careers are Henry Hardman, Hans Singer, Arthur Brown, Ronald Tres, Wildred Beckerman, and Richard Lipsey. Albert Sloman, the only non-economist, describes the inspiration and planning of Essex University after World War II. Tribe (economics, Keele U.) conducted the interviews from late 1995 through 1996. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.