Alan Budd had a stellar career as an economic policymaker: Chief Economic Adviser to Her Majesty’s Treasury, Head of the Government Economic Service, Member of

Ray Rees was born on 19 September 1943 to a poor working-class family in Port Talbot, Wales. By talent and tenacity, he managed to achieve

Dick Sargent, who died on 14 March 2022 at the age of 96, had a long and productive life. He was a university teacher, a

I have seen full many economists since I first commenced to roam, But nowhere yet such an economist have I seen. Modified from Banjo Patterson,

Don Moggridge, who died on 10 April 2021 at the age of 77, was always ready to acknowledge the luck that helped to shape his

Peter Neary died on the 16th of June this year, having been ill for some months. He was one of the world’s foremost international trade

It is with great sadness that the UCL Department of Economics learnt of the death of their colleague, Professor Konrad Mierendorff, on Saturday 7 August

On December 22, 2020 Domenico Mario Nuti, Professor of Economics (retired since 2010) at La Sapienza University of Rome, died. This is a profound loss

Edward “Eddie” P. Lazear passed away last week, at the age of 72. Eddie made path breaking contributions to research in economics, but not only

Geoff Mason, who passed away in June after a long and dignified fight against cancer, had been since 1989 Senior, Principal Research Fellow and then

The Anglo-American political economist and development economist John Weeks died on the 26 July 2020. In addition to a number of polemical works criticising capitalism, that

Peter Sinclair, who has died at the age of 73 of Covid-19, was an inspirational figure, to all his colleagues, but above all to generations

I met Alberto Alesina for the first time at Bocconi University, when he was writing his undergraduate thesis on inflation and asset price indexation. I

Julio López Gallardo, the distinguished Chilean-Mexican development economist, has died in Paris at the age of 78. Julio López made important contributions to the understanding

Thelma Liesner — née Seward — editor of this Newsletter from 1995  to 1997, died on 22 July 2019.  She was born in Uxbridge, West

Walter Eltis: A Creative Economist of Genuine Originality Walter studied economics at University of Cambridge when the Keynesian revolution was at its peak.  He was