Austin the Economist

Alec Cairncross

Chapter 8 in Austin Robinson, 1993, pp 144-164 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The Austin Robinson so far presented has been very much an institutional figure, serving this or that government department, the ‘slave’ of the Royal Economic Society, the founder or mainstay of professional organisations, the promoter of contact and debate between economists across international frontiers. He has not appeared, except in his earliest writing, as a contributor to economic theory. He founded no school, expounded no abstract doctrines peculiar to himself, and indeed appeared to avoid general theory as such. From the war onwards, although he was a prolific writer of reviews, articles and introductions, he wrote nothing at book length to drive home his approach to economic problems.

Keywords: World Trade; Indian Subcontinent; Agricultural Output; Domestic Saving; Support Price (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22895-9_9

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