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Definition: Hicks, Sir John Richard from Chambers Biographical Dictionary

1904-89

English economist and Nobel Prize winner

Born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, he was educated at Clifton College and Balliol College, Oxford. He taught at the London School of Economics (1926-35), and was professor of political economy at Manchester (1938-46) and Oxford (1952-65). He wrote a classic book on the conflict between business-cycle theory and equilibrium theory, Value and Capital (1939), and other works include A Theory of Economic History (1969) and Causality in Economics (1979). He shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in economics with Kenneth Arrow.

Hicks, John Richard

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
English economist. Hicks is celebrated for his invention of the IS–LM diagram, which expounds the true meaning of English economist John Maynard Keynes 's General Theory. He shared the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1972 with US economist Kenneth Arrow for his contributions to general economic equilibrium theory. Much of Hicks's work has become a standard part of the tool kit of modern economists: his early work on the marginal productivity theory of distribution; his subsequent contributions to the New Welfare Economics; his invention of the IS–LM diagram; his masterpiece Value and Capital (1939), which taught a whole generation of economists to employ indifference curves and general equilibrium theory; and his more recent synthesizing work on growth theory. The IS–LM apparatus is a perfect example of Hicks's unusual ability to synthesize the ideas of other economists. This is a diagram in which the whole of Keynes's General Theory is expressed as an intersection of two curves, one…
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HICKS SIR, JOHN RICHARD; ARROW, KENNETH JOSEPH
Nationality: British b. 8 April 1904, Warwick, UK; d. 20 May 1989, Blockley, UK Nationality: American b. 23 August 1921, NY, USA; d. 21 February 2017, Palo Alto, CA, USA For their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory Arrow obtained his Ph.D. from the…
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(born April 8, 1904, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, Eng.—died May 20, 1989, Blockley, Gloucestershire) British economist. He taught at several institutions, notably the University of Oxford, and he was knighted in 1964. His classic work Value and Capital (1939) helped resolve basic conflicts between…
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