Contents

Part I Themes in Oxford Economics 1

1 Oxford’s Contributions to Econometrics 3

David F Hendry and Bent Nielsen

2 Development Economics at Oxford, 1950—2020 29

Frances Stewart and Valpy FitzGerald

3 Oxford’s Contributions to Industrial Economics

from the 1920s to the 1980s 75

Lise Arena

4 Economic History at Oxford, 1860—2020 101

Avner Offer

5 PPE and Oxford Economics 131

Warren Young and Frederic S.

6 The Oxford Institute of Statistics, 1935-1962 147

Jan Toporowski

Part II Some Oxford Economists 161

7Nassau Senior (1790-1864) 163

John Vint

8William Forster Lloyd (1794-1852) 195

Vincent Barnett

9Bonamy Price (1807-1888) 207

Robert J. Bigg

10 Thorold Rogers (1823-1890) 235

Robert A. Cord

11 Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845-1926) 257

John Creedy

12 David Hutchison Macgregor (1877-1953) 283

Lowell Jacobsen

13 Roy F. Harrod (1900-1978) 309

Walter Eltis

14 Robert Lowe Hall (1901-1988) 331

Warren Young

15 Thomas Balogh (1905-1985) 347

Andrew Graham

16 Colin Clark (1905-1989) 371

Alex Millmow

17 P.W.S. Andrews (1914-1971) 395

John E. King

18 Hrothgar John Habakkuk (1915-2002) 417

F M. L. Thompson

19 David Worswick (1916-2001) 441

Rosalind Seneca

20 Ian Little (1918-2012) 471

Christopher Bliss and Vijay Joshi

21 W.M. Gorman (1923-2003) 503

Patrick Honohan and Peter Neary

22 W. Max Corden (1927-) 521

John Martin

23 Derek Robinson (1932-2014) 545

Ken Mayhew

24 David F. Hendry (1944-) 563

Neil R. Ericsson

25 Avner Offer (1944-) 623

Joshua Getzler

26 John Muellbauer (1944-) 645

John Duca

27 Paul Collier (1949-) 673

David Fielding

28 Anthony J. Venables (1953-) 689

Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano

29 Paul David Klemperer (1956-) 711

Huw Dixon

30 John Vickers (1958-) 735

Peter Sinclair

Notes on Contributors 761

Index

771

List of Figures

Chapter 1

Figure 1.1 UK GDP reconstructions, 1300-1700 18

Figure 1.2 UK domestic CO₂ emissions in tons per person per year,

1860-2018 19

List of Tables

Chapter 3

Appendix 1 Pre-War Members of OERG 95

Appendix 2 Post-War Members of OERG 96

Chapter 23

Appendix 1 The Retail Price Index (RPI) and Unemployment in the UK,

1960-1985 560