The Value of Applied Economics

Kenneth Button

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Abstract: This biography of the applied English economist Arthur (A.J.) Brown, an English economist from the late 1930s to the 1980s, sets his work in the context of the Great Depression, the emergence of Oxford University as a centre of applied economic research, the contraction of British colonialism in Africa, the enlarging of the UK university system, the post –war arms race, the UK joining the Common Market, and significant changes in the industrial structure of Britain.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
ISBN: 9781786433657
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction , pp 1-14

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Ch 2 The development of an applied economist , pp 15-32

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Ch 3 Early career and Keynesianism , pp 33-63

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Ch 4 Building an economics department , pp 64-84

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Ch 5 African decolonization and world disarmament , pp 85-115

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Ch 6 The “Phillips Curve†and inflation , pp 116-149

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Ch 7 Domestic policy advisor , pp 150-162

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Ch 8 Regional economic policy and the Hunt Committee , pp 163-188

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Ch 9 Brown’s later activities , pp 189-205

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