Allen, George Cyril 1900-82
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1900 · died 1982
George Cyril Allen, published as G. C. Allen, was a British economist and academic. He was Brunner Professor of Economic Science at the University of Liverpool from 1933 to 1947, and then Professor of Political Economy at University College London from 1947 to 1967. He wrote on Japanese and British industrial policy.
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Professional papers relating to Allen’s writings, mostly on Japan; papers submitted to the Greene Commission on mining wages in 1942; papers submitted to the Monopolies Commission; correspondence, with among others Sir William Ashley and C.A. Ashley.
Allen Papers, University College London, Manuscripts Room.
Correspondents
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1946-61, Robbins Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
Institute of Economic Affairs, Correspondence 1980-2,
Institute of Economic Affairs Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University
Printed Sources
Margaret Gowing, ‘George Cyril Allen 1900-1982’, Proceedings of the British Academy LXXI (1985), 473-91;
ODNB; New Palgrave I 83
Portraits
Proceedings of the British Academy, 1985.