Wartime Activities and Post-War Reconstruction, 1940 to 1947

Warren Young and Frederic Lee
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Chapter 6 in Oxford Economics and Oxford Economists, 1993, pp 137-156 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract With the outbreak of war in September 1939, economic research at Oxford quickly transformed itself into war-related research.1 This transformation took place under the watchful eyes of the SSRC at first, and then it established a smaller body, the Wartime Research Committee, whose members came primarily from the Nuffield College Social Reconstruction Survey Committee and the sub-committee appointed to oversee the OIS. The task of the Wartime Research Committee was to coordinate the economic research being undertaken by the OIS, the Nuffield College Survey, the Joint International Committee, and the Courtauld Inquiry, of which more below.2

Keywords: Foreign Trade; Full Employment; Imperfect Competition; Trade Cycle Theory; British Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230374379_7

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