The outbreak of war transformed economics research at Oxford and provided some new war-related research topics for the OERG and the OIS.

This new range of issues soon became institutionally based and gave rise to new devel­opments within the University, such as the Nuffield College Post-War Reconstruction Survey (1941-1944) which led to the Courtauld Inquiry (1943-1947). Later on, the publication of Manufacturing Business by Philip Andrews in 1949 ushered in a new period of institutionalisation.

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