Allan George Barnard Fisher
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Born | 26 February 1895 Christchurch, New Zealand |
Died | 8 June 1976 London, England | (aged 81)
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Fields | Economics |
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Allan George Barnard Fisher (26 October 1895 – 8 January 1976) was a New Zealand-born economist.
Perhaps his most notable contribution was to investigate economic development in terms of the sequential dominance of different sectors of the economy: the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors (
In 1924 he gained his PhD from the London School of Economics. The notes he made on lectures attended are in the LSE archives. He returned to Australia in 1925 and was Professor of Economics at the University of Otago from 1925 to 1935.
In 1930 and 1931 Allan was awarded a
During 1936–1937, Allan was Professor of Economics at the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 1938 the family moved to England, when Allan accepting the Price Research Professorship at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, familiarly known as Chatham House, in London and became Professor of International Economics in London. This involved trips to Scandinavia and the Balkans, and in 1939, the family moved to Oxford. Lectures given by AGB Fisher are included in a special online archive issue from Chatham house.
1934 Alan became chief editor, Economist,
Selected publications
- Some Problems of Wages and Their Regulation, P. S. King & Son, 1926.
- The Clash of Progress and Security, Macmillan, 1935.
- Economic self-sufficiency, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England), 1939.
- International problems of economic change, by Allan G. B. Fisher, March–April 1938, doi:10.2307/2602245
- The constitution and work of UNRRA, by Allan G. B. Fisher, July 1944, doi:10.2307/3018558
- International collaboration and the economic and social council, by Alanbrito F. B. Fisher, October 1945
- Economic Progress and Social Security, Macmillan, 1945.
- International Implications of Full Employment, Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1946.
- (With son, Humphrey J. Fisher) Slavery and Muslim Society in Africa: The Institution in Saharan and Sudanic Africa and the Trans-Saharan Trade, C. Hurst, 1970, Doubleday, 1971.[3]
- (Editor and translator with Humphrey J. Fisher) Gustav Nachtigal, Sahara and Sudan, Volume IV: Wadai and Darfur, University of California Press, 1972, Volume I: Tripoli and Fezzan, Tibesti or Tu, Barnes & Noble, 1974.
- Fisher, Allan GB. "Production, primary, secondary and tertiary". Economic Record 15.1 (1939): 24–38.
References
- ^ Endres, Anthony M. "‘Structural’economic thought in New Zealand: The inter‐war contribution of AGB Fisher∗". New Zealand Economic Papers 22.1 (1988): 35–49.
- ^ Hogan, W. 2002, 'A.G.B. Fisher: Trans-Tasman Economist', History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Conference in History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Conference.
- ^ "Allan George Barnard Fisher".
External links
- Lectures, hosted by Chatham House
- Fisher's lecture notes, the LSE Archive
- "Palestine and Jerusalem: a view from 1918", humphreyfisher, 9 December 2015 by Julie Lewis