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John Jewkes, 1902-1988.

Manchester School liberal who actually taught at the University of Manchester in the 1930s and 1940s, before moving on as professor of economic organization at Oxford. He was briefly president of the Mont Pelerin society.

Jewkes's 1948 book was one of the few voices that piped up in post-war Britain in opposition to the setting up of the welfare state. Although covering much the same ground as Hayek's Road to Serfdom, but in a bit more practical and accessible way.   Although not averse to J.M. Keynes's theories, he felt that its main message regarded the heroic role of the private businessman as the generator of aggregate demand rather than the government -- a message he believed that zealous Keynesians had distorted. 

 

  

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Major Works of John Jewkes

  • Ordeal by Planning, 1948
  • "The Sources of Invention", 1958, Lloyds Bank Review [et]
  • The Sources of Invention, with D. Sawers and R. Stillerman, 1958
  • The New Ordeal By Planning: The Experience of The Forties and Sixties, 1968.
  • A Return to Free Market Economics: Critical essays on government intervention, 1978

 
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