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British Library of Political and Economic Science

BROWN, Sir Ernest Henry Phelps-, 1906-1994, Knight, economist


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0097 PHELPS BROWN

Held at: British Library of Political and Economic Science

Title: BROWN, Sir Ernest Henry Phelps-, 1906-1994, Knight, economist

Date(s): 1950-1990

Level of description: collection

Extent: 105 boxes

Name of creator(s): Brown | Sir | Ernest Henry | Phelps | 1906-1994 | Knight | economist

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Sir Ernest Henry Phelps Brown, 1906-1994, was educated at Taunton School and Wadham College, Oxford. He was a Rockefeller Travelling Fellow in the USA, 1930-1931, a Fellow of New College Oxford, 1930-1947, Professor of Economics of Labour at the London School of Economics, 1947-1968, and a Fellow of Wadham College Oxford, 1969-1994. His main interests were economics and incomes, and he was a member of the Council on Prices, Productivity and Incomes, 1959, the National Economic Development Council, 1962, and the Royal Commission on Distribution of Income and Wealth, 1974-1978.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Research papers of Sir Henry Phelps Brown, covering wages and prices during his lifetime, and a further collection of papers relating to research and public work, including book reviews, an enquiry into the mobility of labour and a brief autobiography.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

This collection is currently unlisted.

Conditions governing access:

CLOSED UNTIL LISTED

Conditions governing reproduction:

COPYRIGHT IS HELD BY THE DONOR

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Unlisted

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Output from CAIRS using template 14 and checked by hand on May 29, 2002

Date(s) of descriptions: 29 May 2002


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Economic history | Economics
Labour history | History
Labour mobility | Labour market
Prices | Price policy | Economic policy
Wages | Personnel management | Organization and administration | Health services administration | Public administration | Government

Personal names
Brown | Sir | Ernest Henry | Phelps | 1906-1994 | Knight | economist x Phelps Brown | Sir | Ernest Henry

Corporate names
LSE | London School of Economics and Political Science x London School of Economics and Political Science

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