Andrew Glyn

Andrew John Glyn, (30 June 1943 – 22 December 2007) was a United Kingdom-based economist, University Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Economics in Corpus Christi College. A Marxist economist, his research interests focussed on issues of unemployment and inequality.

He was Associate Editor: Oxford Review of Economic Policy. He was a consultant for the National Union of Mineworkers and for the International Labour Organisation.

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Background

Glyn was born in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire.[1] He was the son of John Glyn, the 6th Baron Wolverton, of the Williams & Glyn's Bank banking dynasty.[2] On 22 December 2007, he died of a brain cancer at the Sobell House hospice in Oxford.[3]

Politics

In the 1970's and early 1980's Glyn was a member of the Militant tendency in Oxford, writing a pamphlet critiquing the 'Alternative Economic Strategy' of the [Tribune|Tribune (magazine)] group of MPs, Capitalist Crisis or Socialist Plan in 1978.[4]

In 1984 Glyn also wrote The Economic Case Against Pit Closures for the National Union of Mineworkers to counter the energy policy of the Thatcher government.[5]

Published books

Other published works

He also published 36 peer-reviewed journal articles, many book chapters and a number of essays. He additionally wrote a number of magazine articles and newspaper columns, including those in The Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, and New York Times,

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