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Phyllis Deane’s academic achievement starts from groundwork on colonial social accounting, goes through economic history—The First Industrial Revolution most importantly—on to the history of economic ideas and, finally, down to fundamental issues regarding economic science and political economy, thus opening the way to new developments in economic theory. Deane was an excellent and efficient organiser. She edited the Economic Journal from 1968 to 1975, and was President of the Royal Economic Society in 1980–1982. For many years, she represented the Society on the Council of the Economic History Society. She was an active Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge University, from 1961, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1980.
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Main Works by Phyllis Deane
Deane, P. (1948). The Measurement of Colonial National Incomes: An Experiment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Deane, P. (1953). Colonial Social Accounting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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A Lecture by Phyllis Deane
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An Interview
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Bortis, H. (2017). Phyllis Deane (1918–2012). In: Cord, R. (eds) The Palgrave Companion to Cambridge Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-41233-1_39
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