PAISH SIR GEORGE 1867 1957 ECONOMIST

The material has been arranged into the following sections:

• 'My memoirs by Sir George Paish', draft written in old age. Early 1950's.
• A further incomplete version of the above.
• 'Diaries of George Stegman Gibb', extracts. December 1905.
• Letters to Paish from David Lloyd George on his resignation from the Treasury, 1915. Also correspondence with Cordell Hull 1943 -1944.
• 'The Finances of Great Britain', draft corrected by Paish c 1905.
• 'World Restoration' corrected cuttings of Paish's articles in the Statist for issue as a pamphlet, 1944.
• Two photographs of Paish in middle age.

Sir George Paish 1867-1957.

Sir George Paish was secretary to the editor of "Statist" 1881 - 1888, sub editor, 1888 - 1894, assistant editor 1894 - 1900 and joint editor 1900 - 1916. He was also a member of the Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade on Railway Accounts and Statistics, 1906 - 1908, and Advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the British Treasury on Financial and Economic questions, 1914 - 1916. In addition he was a member of the Official Mission to the American government, November 1914, and Chairman of the Sound Currency Association and Deputy Chairman of the Anglo-Austrian Economic Union.

His publications include:

• British Railway Position (1902)
• Railways of Great Britain (1904)
• Railroads of the United States (1913)
• Capital Investments in other Lands (1909 and 1910)
• Savings and the Social Welfare (1911)
• A Permanent League of Nations (1918)
• The Road to Prosperity (1927)
• World Economic Suicide (1929)
• The Way to Recovery (1931)
• The Way Out (1937)
• The World Danger (1939)
• The Defeat of Chaos (1941)
• World Restoration (1944)
• Sound Currency (1946)
• The World of Danger (1949)

The material has been arranged in seven sections.

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