Lionel Robbins - Howson, Susan (University of Toronto)
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A biography of a major twentieth-century English economist who was a key player in the development of economics as an academic subject, especially at the London School of Economics; in economic policy, especially in Britain during the Second World War; in higher education in the 1960s; and in the administration of the arts in Britain.

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A biography of a major twentieth-century English economist who was a key player in the development of economics as an academic subject, especially at the London School of Economics; in economic policy, especially in Britain during the Second World War; in higher education in the 1960s; and in the administration of the arts in Britain.
Autorenporträt
Susan Howson is Professor of Economics and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Toronto. She was educated at the London School of Economics (1964-1969) and at the University of Cambridge, where she obtained her PhD in 1975. She has held visiting positions in the International Division of the Bank of England (1979-1981); Nuffield College, Oxford (1984-1985); and Wolfson College, Cambridge (1991-1993). Professor Howson is the author of Domestic Monetary Management in Britain 1919-38 (Cambridge University Press, 1975) and British Monetary Policy, 1945-51 (1993) and co-author with Donald Winch of The Economic Advisory Council (Cambridge University Press, 1977). She edited The Collected Papers of James Meade (3 volumes, 1988) and co-edited with Donald Moggridge the wartime diaries of Lionel Robbins and Nobel Laureate James Meade, and the Cabinet Office diary of James Meade (1990). Professor Howson began research on the life and work of Lionel Robbins in the early 1990s. She edited a selection of his major articles in economic theory and economic policy under the title Economic Science and Political Economy (1997). Her work on British economic policy has been published in The Economic Journal, the Economic History Review, History of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic History and Oxford Economic Papers, among other publications. She is also a contributor to the Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain (Structural Change and Growth, Volume III, 2004). The recipient of two prizes for research in economic history, Professor Howson has also held two Connaught Senior Research Fellowships in the Social Sciences, in 2004 and 2007, for her work on Lionel Robbins.