Peter Donaldson (economist)
Peter Donaldson (27 October 1934 – 6 September 2002)academic, author, and radio and television broadcaster.
Academic career
Born in
Hyderabad, India, where he stayed until 1967, except for a six-month stint back in the United Kingdom at Ruskin College
in 1965. On completing his term in Hyderabad he returned to Ruskin College full-time and remained on staff there until his retirement in the early 1990s.
Publishing and broadcasting career
During the course of his early academic career Donaldson became increasingly aware of the limited scope, poor standard, and inaccessibility of economics teaching at school and undergraduate level. In order to provide better teaching material,BBC approached Donaldson, and with the corporation he devised and presented Managing the Economy on BBC Radio 4 during the latter part of the 1960s.
Donaldson's time in India had stirred an interest in
Yorkshire Television-produced programs for ITV Schools and the newly launched Channel 4 television station. His shows 10 x Economics and A Question of Economics were popular with both the general public and teachers,[3]
and were widely used in economics classrooms. Both were accompanied by books of the same name.
Selected bibliography
- Donaldson, Peter (1965). Guide to the British Economy. Penguin Books. p. 255.
- Donaldson, Peter (1971). Worlds Apart: The economic gulf between nations. British Broadcasting Corporation. p. 160. ISBN 0-563-10594-1.
- Donaldson, Peter (1973). Economics of the Real World. Penguin Books/British Broadcasting Corporation. p. 244. ISBN 0-14-021775-4.
- Donaldson, Peter; Clifford, Jim (1977). The Economy and Decision Making. Longman. p. 187. ISBN 0-582-35546-X.
- Donaldson, Peter (1982). 10 x Economics: A simple guide to the economics of the early eighties. Penguin Books. p. 192. ISBN 0-14-022161-1.
- Donaldson, Peter (1985). A Question of Economics. Penguin Books, in association with Channel 4 and Yorkshire Television. p. 236. ISBN 0-14-022618-4.
- Donaldson, Peter; Farquhar, James (1988). Understanding the British Economy. Penguin Books. p. 318. ISBN 0-14-022743-1.
References
- ^ a b Pollins, Harold (25 September 2002). "Obituary: Peter Donaldson". The Guardian. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ^ a b "Obituary: Mr Peter Donaldson". University of Leicester eBulletin. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
- ^ a b "Peter Donaldson" (PDF). Royal Economic Society Newsletter. October 2002. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
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