Economic Advice for Lloyd George

Abstract

In this article I propose to recount some personal experiences of a time when I served, briefly, as an economic adviser to Mr Lloyd George and a few of his colleagues. I owed my invitation to act in that capacity to Mr Seebohm Rowntree, which whom I was well acquainted, and I spent part of the summer of 1930 working in close association with him at Lloyd George’s headquarters in Old Queen Street. I was then a young man, and the experience left me with vivid memories of events and persons that may today be of some interest. First of all, I must explain the circumstances that led to the economic inquiries in which I participated.

First published in The Three Banks Review (June 1975), under the title of ‘Advice from Economists-Forty-Five Years Ago’.