Anstey, Vera (Nee Powell) 1889-1976
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Born 1889 · died 1976
Vera Anstey was a British economist and noted expert on the economy of India. Anstey is most closely associated with the London School of Economics, where she served as a lecturer and chaired the admissions committee, and with the wider University of London, where she served as dean of the faculty of economics.
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Correspondents
WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE, Correspondence 1921-46, Beveridge Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
JAMES EDWARD MEADE, Correspondence 1950-1, Meade Papers, BLPES
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1945-77, Robbins Papers, BLPES
Printed material
ODNB; Ralf Dahrendorf, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE): a history of the London School of Economics and Political Science (Oxford University Press, 1995); Maxine Berg, ‘The first women economic historians’, Economic History Review XLV (May 1992), 308-29
Portraits
Photograph in Ralf Dahrendorf, LSE (1995)