Career

Deane worked at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) between 1941 and 1948. She left there to join the Colonial Office. She left there for Cambridge where she taught and researched since 1950 and has latterly been an emeritus professor of economic history.

Works

Her first book was in 1952 on Colonial Social Accounting. Her other noted works include British Economic Growth 1688–1959 (with W.A. Cole).

Highest-level elected and appointed academic posts

She was president of the Royal Economic Society

Royal Economic Society

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from 1980–82 and is a fellow of the British Academy.

Key works

• (1965) The First Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• (1975) The Evolution of Economic Ideas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• (2001) The Life and Times of J. Neville Keynes: A Beacon in the Tempest, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar
• with W. A. Cole (1962). British Economic Growth 1688-1959. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.