The Oxford Institute of Statistics, 1935–1962

Jan Toporowski ()
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Jan Toporowski: SOAS University of London

Chapter 6 in The Palgrave Companion to Oxford Economics, 2021, pp 147-159 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The Oxford Institute of Statistics was established in 1935 with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, and with Jacob Marschak as Director. However, in 1938 Marschak left for the United States and was eventually replaced by Arthur Bowley, on a part-time basis. The Institute reached the zenith of its activities during the Second World War, under the intellectual direction of Michał Kalecki as the leading independent source of comment and evaluation of British government financial and economic policy. But there always existed a tension in the Institute between its economic and policy research, the statistical research that was of relevance beyond economics, and economic research at Nuffield College, Oxford. Bowley’s successor in 1945, David Champernowne, stayed for only three years as Director, after which the Institute depended on the enthusiasm and projects of individual researchers, until 1962, when it was transformed into the Institute of Economics and Statistics.

Keywords: Oxford Institute of Statistics; Jacob Marschak; Arthur Bowley; Michał Kalecki; David Champernowne (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-58471-9_6

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