biography
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Hicks, Sir John Richard
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| male
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| lived:
| (1904–89)
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| biography:
| Economist, born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, C England, UK. He studied at Oxford, taught at the London School of Economics (1926–35), and was professor of political economy at Manchester (1938–46) and Oxford (1952–65). He wrote a classic book on the conflict between business-cycle theory and equilibrium theory (Value and Capital, 1939), and other works include A Theory of Economic History (1969) and Causality in Economics (1979). He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize for Economics. |
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