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W. Brian Reddaway, 1913-2002.

English economist in Australia. 

While an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge, in the early 1930s, Reddaway was the winner of the Adam Smith prize and a tutorial student of J.M. Keynes and Richard Kahn.  Reddaway produced one of the first reviews of the General Theory. 

After receiving his degree, Reddaway took a trip to the Soviet Union, where he collected data for his first major work (1935).  After that a two-year stint as a research fellow at the University of Melbourne, he returned to the UK in 1939, as a fellow Clare College, Cambridge. During the war, he worked at the Board of Trade on rationing schemes, and was drawn to applied economics.

In the immediate postwar era, he worked on the problem of producer price indexes (1948).  In 1955, Reddwaway became director of the Cambridge Department of Applied Economics.  In 1969, he resigned to take up the famous chair of Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge, which he would hold until his retirement in 1980. 

 

  

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Major Works of W.B. Reddaway

  • Russian Financial System, 1935.
  • "Review of J.M. Keynes", 1936, Econ Record
  • "Irrationality in Consumers' Demand", 1936, EJ
  • The Economics of a Declining Population, 1939
  • Measurement of Production Movements, 1948.
  • "Movements in the Real Product of the United Kingdom, 1946-49", 1950, JRSS
  • "Wage Flexibility and the Distribution of Labour", 1959, Lloyds BR
  • Development of the Indian Economy, 1962.
  • "Keynesian Analysis and the Managed Economy", 1963,  in Lekachmen, editor, Keynes's General Theory.
  • "The Economics of Underdeveloped Countries", 1963, EJ
  • "Development of the Indian Economy", 1963, Oxford EP
  • "Rising Prices Forever?", 1966, Lloyds BR.
  • "Higgledy-Piggledy Growth", 1967, EJ
  • Effects of UK Direct Investment Overseas, 1971 ("Reddaway Report")
  • "Tariffs, Economic Welfare and Development Potential", with J. Vanek, 1971, EJ
  • "Recollections of a Lucky Economist", 1995, BNLQR [pdf]

 
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