Papers of Terence Hutchison relating to his career

Small collection of letters and other papers of Terence Wilmot Hutchison relating to his education, to his early career as a teacher, to his military service during the Second World War and to his subsequent academic career. This material is not a comprehensive series of papers and it consists almost exclusively of official or more formal documents such as letters of appointment, documents relating to salary and conditions of service, references, letters of congratulation. Some of the papers are quite miscellaneous and, for example, there is only one item relating to his education at Peterhouse College, Cambridge.

The most interesting items relate to Hutchison's application for the Chair of Economics at the University of Birmingham: these include two letters of encouragement from Lance Beales, Reader in Economic History at the London School of Economics and, behind the scenes, encouragement from Professor W. H. B. Court, the economic historian at Birmingham.

Terence Wilmot Hutchison (1912-2007) was educated at Tonbridge School and Peterhouse College, Cambridge where he studied economics, graduating in 1934.

Career
Hutchison's first appointment was as Lector at the University of Bonn, 1935-38 and he was then appointed as Professor at the Teachers' Training College, Bagdad, 1938-41. During the Second World War, he served in the Indian Army, in intelligence, in the Middle East and India, 1941-46 and he was attached to Government of India, 1945-46. His subsequent academic appointments were as Lecturer, University College, Hull, 1946-47; Lecturer, 1947-51 and Reader, 1951-56, London School of Economics; Professor of Economics, University of Birmingham, 1956-78, then Emeritus Professor, and he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Social Science, 1959-61. He was also Visiting Professor at the following institutions: Columbia University, 1954-55; University of Saarbrucken, 1962, 1980; Yale University, 1963-64; Dalhousie University, 1970; Keio University, Tokyo, 1973; University of WA, 1975; University of California, Davis, 1978; and Visiting Fellow at University of Virginia, 1960; Australia National University, Canberra, 1967. He was a Member of the Council of the Royal Economic Society, 1967-72.

Publications
The Significance and Basic Postulates of Economic Theory (1938; 2nd edition 1960); A Review of Economic Doctrines 1870-1929 (1953); Positive Economics and Policy Objectives (1964); Economics and Economic Policy 1946-66 (1968); Knowledge and Ignorance in Economics (1977); Keynes v the Keynesians (1977); Revolutions and Progress in Economic Knowledge (1978); The Politics and Philosophy of Economics, (1981); Before Adam Smith (1988); Changing Aims in Economics (1992); The Uses and Abuses of Economics (1994); and The Methodology of Economics and the Formalist Revolution (2000). He also published articles and book reviews in journals

Source: Who's who 2003

Arranged into nine files for the aspects of his education and professional life as represented in this collection

Open, access to all registered researchers.

Presented by Christine Penney, former Head of Special Collections, October 2010

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Permission to make any published use of any material from the collection must be sought in advance in writing from the Director of Special Collections (email: special-collections@contacts.bham.ac.uk). Identification of copyright holders of unpublished material is often difficult. Special Collections will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material.

Special Collections holds a collection of personal and research papers of Professor Hutchison which he presented in 2003 (US74). Special Collections has also acquired copies of correspondence of Professor Donald Winch with Professor Hutchison (MS820)