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Sir Hubert Douglas Henderson, 1890-1952.

English Neoclassical economist.

Aberdeen-born Scottish economist, was educated at Emmanuel College and later became a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. Hubert Henderson was an early pupil and friend of John Maynard Keynes.  Henderson helped spread Cambridge Neoclassical gospel with his popular 1922 textbook, Supply and Demand.  From 1923, Henderson collaborated with Keynes as an editor of the Nation & Athenaeum and on their famous 1929 pamphlet Can Lloyd George Do It?. 

After a stint in the Economic Advisory Council in the early 1930s, Hubert Henderson became a Fellow at All Soul's College, Oxford in 1934. An orthodox  Marshallian, Henderson broke with Keynes in the 1930s, writing a bitter review of the General Theory.  

Henderson served as an advisor to the Treasury during WWII.   In 1945, Henderson beat out Harrod to the Drummond Professorship at Oxford, which he would hold until his death in 1952 (Henderson was succeeded by Hicks). He was critical in resisting the intrusion of the Keynesian Revolution at Oxford. 

 

  

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Major Works of Hubert D. Henderson

  • The Cotton Control Board, 1922 [bk]
  • Supply and Demand, 1922. [bk, gut]
  • Can Lloyd George Do It? with J.M. Keynes, 1929 [HET: pdf]
  • The Agricultural Dilemma, 1935.

  • "Mr Keynes's Attack on Economists", 1936, The Spectator (Feb14)

  • The Inter-War Years and other papers, 1955.

 
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