Alexander Cairncross (economist)

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Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross

FRSE FBA (11 February 1911 – 21 October 1998), known as Sir Alec Cairncross, was a British economist. He was the brother of the spy John Cairncross and father of journalist Frances Cairncross and public health engineer and epidemiologist Sandy Cairncross
.

Life

Cairncross was born in

Glasgow University.[2] From there, he attained a further research studentship to study at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1935 was awarded the second PhD in economics bestowed by the university (the first, according to Cairncross himself, was given to Ronald Walker).[3]

He became a lecturer in economics, under the influence of

Organisation for European Economic Co-operation in Paris
in 1949. and he left to become Professor of Applied Economics at his old university, Glasgow, in 1951.

Cairncross was instrumental in founding the

Guildhall, Swansea he gave the Presidential Address as President of the British Association for 1970–1971.[5] Cairncross was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1961.[6] Cairncross also received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1969, and in 1992 was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[7]

In 1970 he was invited to deliver the MacMillan Memorial Lecture to the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. He chose the subject "Economic Growth".[8]

Recognition

The Scottish Economic Society instituted the Cairncross Prize in his memory.[4]

Family and death

Cairncross married Mary Frances Glynn in 1943; the couple had five children: two daughters and three sons.[6][9] He died in Oxford on 21 October 1998.[10]

Publications

  • Introduction to Economics (1944, 1st ed.; 1973, 5th ed.)
  • Home and Foreign Investment, 1870-1913 (1953)
  • Monetary Policy in a Mixed Economy (1960)
  • Economic Development and the Atlantic Provinces (1961)
  • Essays in Economic Management (1962)
  • Control over Long-Term Capital Movements (1973)
  • Britain's Economics Prospects Reconsidered, ed. (1971)
  • Years of Recovery: British Economic Policy 1945-51 (1985)
  • 'Goodbye, Great Britain': The 1976 IMF Crisis (1992) (with Kathleen Burk)[11]
  • The Heath Government and the British Economy (chapter in "The Heath Government 1970 - 74  : A Reappraisal" , editors Stuart Ball and Anthony Selsdon) (1996)

References

  1. ^ Budd, Alan (23 October 1998). "Obituary". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 7 November 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2010.
  2. ISBN 978-1-4456-9833-5
    . Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  3. ISBN 0953541304
  4. ^ a b Sir Alexander (Alec) Kirkland Cairncross, Gazetteer for Scotland
  5. ^ Dixon, Bernard (27 August 1971). "Science: Catching up (on the 1971 annual meeting of the British Association)". The Spectator.
  6. ^ a b Who's Who 1974, London : A. & C. Black, 1974, p. 497.
  7. ^ "Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates". www1.hw.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  8. ^ "Hugh Miller Macmillan". Macmillan Memorial Lectures. Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland. Archived from the original on 4 October 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 September 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. ISSN 0013-0613
    . Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  11. ISBN 0-300-05728-8
    .

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Preceded by
Lord Boyd-Orr
 Chancellor of the University of Glasgow
1972 to 1996 		Succeeded by
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