Foxwell
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Herbert Somerton Foxwell (1849 - 1936) was an English economist. He played an important role in the fostering of economic studies in Britain through his teaching, his work with the Royal Economic Society and other organisations, and his prodigious book collecting. Foxwell was probably the greatest collector of economic literature and over 70,000 books passed through his possession, most of them to form the present collection of the Goldsmiths Library, University of London, and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics in the Baker Library, Harvard University.His publications were mainly articles or introductions to books, most notably the article on the "Ricardian socialists" presented as the introduction to Anton Menger's The Right to the Whole Produce of Labour (1899).
[edit] Publications
- The Social Aspect of Banking, 1886.
- Irregularity of Employment and Fluctuations of Prices, 1886.
- "Introduction" to A. Menger -The Right to the Whole Produce of Labour (1899).
- Papers on Current Finance, 1919.
[edit] References
- M. Blaug (ed.) - Who's who in economics (3d edition), 1999.
- J.M. Keynes - "Herbert Somerton Foxwell" in Essays in Biography, 1933.
