Oxford economics and Oxford economists

This book focuses upon the development of economics at Oxford after the establishment of PPE and the contributions of Oxford economists during the 'years of high theory' and afterwards. Students' recollections of tutorials and lectures, and their tutors and lecturers, along with examination questions and results, amongst other aspects of teaching at Oxford, are presented here for he first time. In addition, the many contributions of Oxford economists such as Harrod, Allen, Andrews, Hicks, Meade, Richardson and Steindl, including the staff of the Oxford Institute of Statistics, along with the story of the Institute itself, are dealt with. Unpublished correspondence, memoranda and papers are collected at various archives are cited to show that Oxford's contribution to the development of economics was equal to that of Cambridge.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Prologue: Before PPE -- Oxford Political Economy, 1880 to 1900 -- Oxford Political Economy and the Diploma in Economics, 1901-1920 -- Honour School of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics -- 1 From Oxford Political Economy to Oxford Economics, 1922-39 -- The Changing of the Guard, 1921-22 to 1926-27 -- Crisis and the Rise to Dominance of Oxford Economics, 1927-28 to 1932-33 -- Becoming Entrenched: Oxford Economics, 1933-34 to 1938-39 -- The PPE Idea and the Cole Group -- 2 Oxford Pedagogy, 1922 to 1939: Tutorials and Lectures -- Tutorials and Tutors -- 'Revision' and 'Discussion' Classes -- Student Evaluation of Tutorials and Tutors -- Lectures and Seminars -- Evaluation of Lectures and Lecturers -- 3 Oxford Pedagogy, 1922 to 1939: PPE and New Knowledge -- Lectures and Seminars: One Student's Notes -- Examinations, 1923 to 1939 -- Candidates, Examiners, and Class Results -- The PPE's Adaptation to 'New Knowledge' in a Comparative Perspective -- 4 High Theory, 1924 to 1939: Harrod, Meade, and the Cross-fertilisation of Ideas in Oxford -- Cross-fertilisation of ideas: Oxbridge and the LSE -- Harrod, Edgeworth, Ramsey, Robertson, Allen, Kaldor and Marschak, 1924 to 1939 -- Meade, Allen and Robertson, 1931 to 1938 -- Harrod, Meade, Hitch and Shackle, 1937 -- 5 Grounded Empiricism, 1931 to 1939 -- Formation and Activities of the Oxford Institute of Statistics -- Formation and Activities of the Oxford Economists' Research Group -- 6 Wartime Activities and Post-War Reconstruction, 1940 to 1947 -- Research during the War -- Undergraduate Lectures 1940 to 1947 and the Development of Graduate Classes and Seminars after the War -- 7 Reformulation and Revival, Retrospection and Revision, 1948 Onwards.