Thursday 21 January 2010

Missing in Action

A.C. Pigou, King's 1896; Professor of Political  Eonomy in the University of Cambridge.

J.M. Keynes, King's 1902.

J.R.N. Stone, Kingsman; Director of the Department of Applied Economics, Professor of Finance and Accounting in the University of Cambridge.

J.E. Meade, Trinity; Professor of Economics in the University of Cambridge.

W.B. Reddaway, King's 1931; Director of the Department of Applied Economics; Professor of Political Economy in the University of Cambridge.

N. Kaldor, Kingsman;  Professor of Economics in the University of Cambridge.

W.A.H. Godley, Kingsman: Director of the Department of Applied Economics; Professor of Applied Economics in the University of Cambridge.

They, and so many of their pupils, could sort us out in no time.

And what have we got?  Balls from Oxford;  and a sometime member of the sometime Fourth International (rather than the Third International or Comintern)  from the University of Aberdeen.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Where does that put Mervyn King, King's 1966?

Weekend Yachtsman said...

And how about

Friedrich von Hayek, University of Vienna 1923?

and

Milton Friedman, University of Chicago 1933?

Worth ten of Keynes any day, imho.

hatfield girl said...

Neither von Hayek nor Friedman were setting or advising on UK government policy, Yacht.

And where does that put King of King's, Anon? In the frame, don't you think?