Professor of Political Economy, Cambridge University
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The Professorship of Political Economy is a professorship at the University of Cambridge
, founded in 1828.
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
, founded in 1828.
Professors of Political Economy
- George PrymeGeorge PrymeGeorge Pryme was a British economist, academic and politician.Pryme was born in 1781 in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, the only surviving child of merchant Christopher Pryme and his wife, Alice Dinsdale...
(1828) - Henry FawcettHenry FawcettHenry Fawcett PC was a blind British academic, statesman and economist.-Background and education:Fawcett was born in Salisbury, and educated at King's College School and the University of Cambridge: entering Peterhouse in 1852, he migrated to Trinity Hall the following year, and became a fellow...
(1863) - Alfred MarshallAlfred MarshallAlfred Marshall was an Englishman and one of the most influential economists of his time. His book, Principles of Economics , was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years...
(1884) - Arthur Cecil PigouArthur Cecil PigouArthur Cecil Pigou was an English economist. As a teacher and builder of the school of economics at the University of Cambridge he trained and influenced many Cambridge economists who went on to fill chairs of economics around the world...
(1908) - Dennis Robertson (1944)
- James MeadeJames MeadeJames Edward Meade CB, FBA was a British economist and winner of the 1977 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with the Swedish economist Bertil Ohlin for their "Pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements."Meade was born in...
(1957) - William Brian Reddaway (1969)
- Robert Charles Oliver MatthewsRobin Matthews (economist)Robert Charles Oliver Matthews was an economist and chess problemist.Matthews was born in Edinburgh. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford from 1965 to 1975 and the Professor of Political Economy at...
(1980) - Anthony Barnes AtkinsonAnthony Barnes AtkinsonSir Anthony Barnes "Tony" Atkinson, FBA, is a British economist and has been a Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford since 2005.-Career:Atkinson served as Warden of Nuffield College from 1994 to 2005...
(1992) - James MirrleesJames MirrleesSir James Alexander Mirrlees is a Scottish economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in 1998....
(1995) - Aldo Rustichini (2007)
- Oliver Linton (2011)