Richard Kahn, Baron Kahn

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Richard Ferdinand Kahn, Baron Kahn, CBE, (10 August 1905 – 6 June 1989) was a British economist.

Kahn was born in Hampstead to Augustus Kahn, a German schoolmaster and an orthodox Jew, and Regina Schoyer. He raised in England and was educated on St Paul's School, London. Kahn received a Bachelor of Arts in 1927, had been supervised by Gerald Shove and John Maynard Keynes. In 1930 he was elected a Fellow of King's College.

He worked in the Faculty of Economics and Politics from 1933, becoming Director of Studies for economics students at King's in 1947, a post he held until 1951. Instead Kahn was appointed Professor of Economics, which he stayed for over twenty years.

Kahn was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1946 and became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1960, created a life peer wit the title Baron Kahn, of Hampstead in the London Borough of Camden on 6 July 1965.

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• The Papers of Baron Kahn at JANUS. Retrieved on 2006-10-22.