BROWN SIR ERNEST HENRY PHELPS 1906 - 1994 KT PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS

Series of interview undertaken by Keith Hancock for an obituary article on Sir Henry Phelps-Brown for the Economic Journal. Interviews with:

• David Metcalf, Professor of Industrial Relations, LSE folio 1 - 16
• Ben Roberts folio 27 - 42
• Anne Bohm, Secretary, Graduate School, LSE folio 43 - 49
• David Worswick folio 50 - 71
• Juliet Hopkins, daughter folio 72 - 84
• Marjorie Durbin folio 85 - 102
• Evelyn Phelps-Brown folio 103 - 141
• Alex Cairncross folio 142 - 156

Sir Ernest Henry Phelps 1906 - 1994

Ernest Phelps was born in Calne, Wiltshire and educated at Taunton School and Wadham College, Oxford. He was a Fellow of New College, Oxford 1930 - 1947 (Honorary Fellow 1987), and a Rockefeller Travelling Fellow in USA 1930 - 1931. From 1947 he was Professor of Economics of Labour, University of London, until 1968, when he became Emeritus Professor. He was also a member of the Council on Prices, Productivity and Incomes (1959), National Development Council (1962), and the Royal Commission on Distribution of Income and Wealth (1974 - 1978). From 1966 to 1968 he was Chairman of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, and also President of Royal Economic Society 1970 - 1972.

He was knighted in 1989.

His publications include:

• The Framework of the Pricing System (1936)
• The Growth of British Industrial Relations (1959)
• A Course in Applied Economics (1959)
• The Economics of Labour (1962)
• A Century of Pay (1968)
• The Inequality of Pay (1977)
• The Origins of Trade Union Power (1983)

One folder containing numbered folios.

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