IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0097 COLL MISC 0677
Held at: British Library of Political and Economic Science
Title: COHEN, Reuben Kelf-, 1895-1981, economist
Date(s): c1960
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 folder
Name of creator(s): Cohen | Reuben | Kelf- | 1895-1981 | economist
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Administrative/Biographical history:
Reuben Kelf-Cohen (1905-1978) was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Wadham College, Oxford. He served in the Royal Field Artillery during World War One (1914-1918). In 1920 he entered the Board of Education. from 1924 to 1939 he was Tutorial Class Tutor, London University. He was a member of the Board of Trade 1925-1941, the Petroleum Department 1941-1942, and Principal Assistant Secretary (Gas and Electricity) at the Ministry of Fuel and Power, 1942-1945. From 1946 to 1955 he was Under-Secretary at the Ministry. Kelf-Cohen was also Director of the East Indian Produce company 1955-1959, and Visiting Lecturer at St. Andrews University, 1970, and University College, Aberystwyth, 1971. His publications include: Nationalisation in Britain: the end of a dogma (1958); To whom is nationalized industry responsible? (1959); Twenty years of nationalisation: the British experience (1969).
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Autobiography, mainly relating to his civil service career and containing information on energy policy and nationalisation.
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Archivist's note: Output from CAIRS using template 14 and checked by hand on May 8, 2002
Date(s) of descriptions: 8 May 2002