Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

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Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh (Budapest, 2 November 1905-20 January 1985) was a Hungarian economist and member of the British House of Lords.

Balogh moved to England in the 1930s and for many years was a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. He advised governments all over the world, including India, Australia, Jamaica, Malta and the United Kingdom.

Balogh was an adviser to successive leaders of the Labour Party and in 1964 was made Economic Adviser to the Cabinet. He was made a life peer in June 1968 as Baron Balogh of Hampstead in Greater London and became a Minister of State for Energy from 1974 to 1977.

Balogh was married in 1970 to Catherine Storr, née Cole, (1913-2001), children's writer and psychiatrist. He died in 1985.

[edit] Major works

  • The Irrelevance of Conventional Economics (1982)
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