Andrew Glyn
Andrew John Glyn (30 June 1943 – 22 December 2007) was an English economist, University Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Economics in Corpus Christi College. A Marxian economist, his research interests focussed on issues of unemployment and inequality.
He was Associate Editor of Oxford Review of Economic Policy. He was a consultant for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and for the International Labour Organisation.
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] He attended Eton and went on to study economics at Oxford University before becoming a government economist from 1964 to 1966.[1] He was appointed to a fellowship in economics at Corpus Christi where he worked for the rest on his life.[1]
On 22 December 2007, he died of a brain cancer at the Sobell House hospice in Oxford.[3]
Politics
In the 1970s and early 1980s Glyn was a member of the Trotskyist Militant tendency in Oxford, writing a pamphlet critiquing the 'Alternative Economic Strategy' of the Tribune 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.[4]
Published books
- Capitalism Unleashed. Oxford University Press, 2006.[5]
- Social democracy in neoliberal times : the left and economic policy since 1980. Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Colliery closures and the decline of the UK coal industry, with Stephen Machin. Oxford : Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford, 1996.
- The North, the South, and the environment : ecological constraints and the global economy, with V Bhaskar. St. Martin's Press, 1995.
- British Capitalism, Workers and the Profit Squeeze, with Bob Sutcliffe. Penguin, 1972; also translated into Italian, German, and Japanese.
- The British Economic Disaster, with John Harrison. Pluto, 1980; (also translated into Japanese).
- Capitalism Since World War II: The Making and Breakup of the Great Boom, with Philip Armstrong and John Harrison. Fontana, 1984. 2nd edition as Capitalism Since 1945, Blackwells 1991. Also translated into Chinese and Korean.
- A Million Jobs a Year. Verso, 1985.
- Capitalism in crisis, with Robert B Sutcliffe. Pantheon Books, 1972.
- British capitalism, workers and the profits squeeze with Robert B Sutcliffe. Penguin, 1972.
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,
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Obituary: Andrew Glyn, The Guardian, 1 January 2008 – retrieved 30 August 2011
- ↑ Andrew Glyn: Leading left-wing economist devoted to the study of inequality, The Independent, 7 January 2008 – retrieved 30 August 2011
- ↑ Sutcliffe, Bob (January 2011), "Glyn, Andrew John (1943–2007)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press), doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/99345
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Andrew Glyn, Socialism Today, issue 115, February 2008. Retrieved 30 August 2011
- ↑ OUP catalog entry. Reviewed in The Guardian , International Review of Applied Economics , World Economics , and De Economist ; interview and review in Socialist Review .
External links
- Obituary in The Times, 8 January 2008
- Obituary in The Guardian, 1 January 2008
- Faculty web page
- Appreciation essay in Renewal: a journal of social democracy, autumn 2008
- Obituary in Socialism Today, issue 115, February 2008
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