Hicks, John Richard (Sir) 1904-89
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1904 · died 1989
Sir John Richard Hicks was a British economist. He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics, and the IS–LM model (1937), which summarised a Keynesian view of macroeconomics. His book Value and Capital (1939) significantly extended general-equilibrium and value theory. The compensated demand function is named the Hicksian demand function in memory of him.
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The Hicks Papers are held by the Hicks Foundation, Oxford, and are not open to researchers.
Letters to the Manchester Guardian 1925-55.
Manchester Guardian Archive, John Rylands Library, Manchester
Correspondents
WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE, Correspondence 1931-44, Beveridge Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
ROY FORBES HARROD, Correspondence 1933-73, Harrod Papers, Chiba University of Commerce
RALPH GEORGE HAWTREY, Correspondence 1936-69, Hawtrey Papers, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College Cambridge
FRIEDRICH AUGUST HAYEK, Correspondence 1965-84, Hayek Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University
NICHOLAS KALDOR, Correspondence 1930s, Kaldor Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
FRITZ MACHLUP, Correspondence 1934-81, Machlup Papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University
JAMES EDWARD MEADE, Correspondence 1932-69, Meade Papers, BLPES
ARNOLD PLANT, Correspondence 1928-9, Plant Papers, BLPES
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1939-71, Robbins Papers, BLPES
DENNIS HOLME ROBERTSON, Correspondence 1933-56, Robertson Papers, Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge
JOAN VIOLET ROBINSON, Correspondence 1933, 1935, Joan Robinson Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
JOHN WILLIAM NEVILL WATKINS, Correspondence 1974, Watkins Papers, BLPES
ROYAL ECONOMIC SOCIETY, Correspondence with editors of the Economic Journal 1945-71, Royal Economic Society Archives, BLPES
Printed material
ODNB; New Palgrave II, 641-6; Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XII, pp. 215-31.
T. Hirai and T. Nishizawa, ‘The letters between John Hicks and Ursula Webb, September-December 1935’, Institute for Economic and Business Administration Research, University of Hyogo, Working Paper 2007 (Hyogo, 2006)
Portraits
NPG; All Souls’ College, Oxford