Misplaced Pages

Helen Makower

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
British economist

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Helen Makower" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Helen Makower (1 June 1910 in London – 17 May 1998 in Marlborough, Wiltshire) was a British economist. She was the daughter of the writer and music critic Stanley Makower. Graduating from Newnham College, Cambridge (M.A. Oxon, inc. awarded 1938, and with a Ph.D. in Economics (London School of Economics and Political Science) 1937, she joined Jacob Marschak's Oxford Institute of Statistics before serving in Frederick Lindemann's S-Branch, Sir Winston Churchill's private economics and statistics service, during World War II. After the war, she served briefly with the British Control Commission in Germany and later with the United Nations, before returning to academia and the London School of Economics, where she retired as a Reader in 1977. Makower was at the forefront of the statistical turn in the British economics of the 1930s, and remained an influential figure after the war, acting as an important link between the mathematical economics developed at the Cowles Commission and British economics.

Works

  • Makower, H. and Marschak, J., 1938. Assets, prices and monetary theory. Economica, 5(19), pp.261-288.
  • Makower H., J. Marschak, H.W. Robinson (1939-40) Studies in mobility of labor: analysis for Great Britain, Pt I& II Oxford Economic Papers, 4 (1940), pp. 39-62
  • Makower, Helen, Activity Analysis and the Theory of Economic Equilibrium (London : Macmillan 1957).

Bibliography

  • Lancaster, K. J. (1987), "Makower, Helen". In J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman, The New Palgrave, vol. 3, London: Macmillan, p. 280.

References

  1. Rutherford, Donald, ed. (2004). Biographical Dictionary of British Economists. Vol. 2. Continuum International. pp. 718–719. ISBN 1-84371-030-7.


Stub icon

This biography of a British economist is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories: