PHILLIPS ALBAN WILLIAM HOUSEGO 1914 - 1975 ECONOMIST

This material is held atLSE Library Archives and Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 97 COLL MISC 0857
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1960-1993
  • Language of Material
    • English.
  • Physical Description
    • 2 boxes

Scope and Content

Papers of A.W. Phillips, economist. This collection consists of Bill Phillip's surviving lectures, lecture notes and draft unpublished articles, notes and calculations on economics, including the Chinese economy. There is also a published memoir by his sister.

Administrative / Biographical History

Professor Alban William Housego Phillips 1914 - 1975.

Professor Phillips was educated in New Zealand state schools and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He obtained various posts in electrical engineering from 1930 - 1940 and served in the Royal Air Force (Technical Branch) 1940 - 1946 as Armament Officer at Kollang in Singapore. During the evacuation of the RAF from Singapore in 1942 he was captured and spent the remainder of the war as a Japanese POW in Indonesia.

He became Assistant Lecturer in Economics at the LSE, 1950 - 1951, Lecturer in Economics 1951 - 1954, Reader in Economics at the University of London, 1954 - 1958 and Tooke Professor of Economic Science and Statistics at the University of London 1958 - 1967. He was the Professor of Economics in the Australian National University 1967 - 1970.

His publications include:

  • Dynamic models in economics (1953)
  • Employment, inflation and growth: an inaugural lecture. 28 November, 1961(1962)
  • Stability and inflation: a volume of essays to honour the memory of AWH Phillips (1978) edited by A.R. Bergstrom
  • AWH Phillips: collected works in contemporary perspective 1914 - 1975 (2000) edited by Robert Leeson

Arrangement

The material has been arranged in four sections.

Access Information

OPEN

Acquisition Information

Phillips, Mrs V. via Sticerd

Other Finding Aids

Listed on database only.

Conditions Governing Use

COPYRIGHT IS HELD BY THE FAMILY

Geographical Names