Andrew Glyn Explained
| Andrew Glyn |
| Birth Date: | 30 June 1943 |
| Birth Place: | Tetsworth, England |
| Death Place: | Oxford, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Academic, economist |
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| Discipline: | Economics |
| Sub Discipline: | Unemployment, Economic inequality |
| Workplaces: | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Notable Works: | Oxford Review of Economic Policy |
Hon. 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 focused 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. He was appointed to a fellowship in economics at Corpus Christi where he worked for the rest on his life. During his time at Oxford he tutored both David and Ed Miliband: Ed Miliband's adviser Stewart Wood has described Glyn as Miliband's biggest intellectual influence.[3]
On 22 December 2007, he died of a brain cancer at the Sobell House hospice in Oxford.[4]
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.[5]
In 1984 Glyn 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
- Capitalism Unleashed. Oxford University Press, 2006.[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
- 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.
- A Million Jobs a Year. Verso, 1985.
- 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.
- The British Economic Disaster, with John Harrison. Pluto, 1980; (also translated into Japanese).
- British Capitalism, Workers and the Profit Squeeze, with Bob Sutcliffe. Penguin, 1972; also translated into Italian, German, and Japanese.
- 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 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 The New York Times.
External links
Notes and References
- https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/jan/01/obituaries.business?INTCMP=SRCH Obituary: Andrew Glyn, The Guardian, 1 January 2008 – retrieved 30 August 2011
- https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/andrew-glyn-leading-leftwing-economist-devoted-to-the-study-of-inequality-768596.html Andrew Glyn: Leading left-wing economist devoted to the study of inequality
- Web site: PPE: the Oxford degree that runs Britain . Beckett . Andy. Andy Beckett. 23 February 2017. . 23 February 2017.
- Sutcliffe. Bob. Glyn, Andrew John (1943–2007). 10.1093/ref:odnb/99345. January 2011.
- http://socialismtoday.org/115/glyn.html Andrew Glyn
- http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199226795.do? OUP catalog entry
- Reviewed in The Guardian http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1861240,00.html
- https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02692170600874242 Reviewed in International Review of Applied Economics
- http://www.world-economics-journal.com/WEJArticle.asp?Vol=8&Iss=2&Id=295 Reviewed in World Economics
- https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10645-006-9037-7 Reviewed in De Economist
- interview and review in Socialist Review http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=9792.
