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John Hicks, who was the first Englishman to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics (a joint award with Kenneth Arrow in 1972), has made original contributions to many areas of economics — labour and wages, value, capital, trade cycle theory, growth theory, methodology, economic history, welfare theory and, especially, general equilibrium and monetary theory. He started his intellectual life at Oxford as a mathematician but switched to PPE.
Reprinted from Adam Kuper and Jessica Kuper (eds), The Social Science Encyclopaedia, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985, pp. 355–6.
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Hicks, J. R. (1975) ‘Revival of Political Economy: The Old and The New’, Economic Record, 51.
Hicks, J. R. and Allen, R. G. D. (1934) ‘A Reconsideration of the Theory of Value: Parts I and II’, Economica, 1.
Further Reading
Baumol, W. J. (1972) ‘John R. Hicks’ Contribution to Economics’, Swedish Journal of Economics, 74.
Hicks, J. R. (1979) ‘The Formation of an Economist’, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, 130.
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Harcourt, G.C. (1993). John Hicks (1904–89). In: Post-Keynesian Essays in Biography. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12826-6_13
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