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 Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full 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 & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

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This collection is currently unlisted.

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CLOSED UNTIL LISTED

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Unlisted

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Description Notes

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

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29 May 2002

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