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Major Douglas, the founder of the Social Credit movement, was born in Stockport, Cheshire, in 1879. After a period at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he trained as an engineer and then served with the Royal Flying Corps. He died at Dundee, Scotland, in 1952.
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Clark, D. (2018). Douglas, Clifford Hugh (1879–1952). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_206
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