Cannan, Edwin 1861-1935
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1861 · died 1935
Edwin Cannan was a British economist and historian of economic thought. He taught at the London School of Economics from 1895 to 1926.
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Manuscript, typescript and printed papers in 143 volumes, 1876-1935, including correspondence, publishers’ agreements and accounts, and other papers.
Cannan Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
Correspondents
WILLIAM HENRY BEVERIDGE, Baron Beveridge, Correspondence 1921-34, Beveridge Papers, BLPES
C.F. BICKERDIKE, Correspondence 1902-24, Bickerdike Papers*
HERBERT SOMERTON FOXWELL, Correspondence 1901-29, Foxwell Papers, Kwansei Gakuin University+
JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES, Baron Keynes, Correspondence 1912-35, Keynes Papers, Modern Archive Centre, King’s College Cambridge
JAMES EDWARD MEADE, Correspondence 1932, Meade Papers, BLPES
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Notes of Cannan’s lectures at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 1921-3, and correspondence 1924-34, Robbins Papers, BLPES
EDWIN ROBERT ANDERSON SELIGMAN, Correspondence 1897, 1930, Seligman Papers, Columbia University Library, New York
GRAHAM WALLAS, Correspondence 1914-22, Wallas Papers, BLPES
Printed material
Edwin Cannan, An Economist’s Protest (London, 1927); A.L. Bowley, ‘Obituary’, and Lionel Robbins, ‘A student’s recollections of Edwin Cannan, Economic Journal 45 (June 1935), 385-98
ODNB; New Palgrave
Portrait
London Essays in Economics: In Honour of Edwin Cannan, eds T.E. Gregory and Hugh Dalton (London, 1927)
* Current whereabouts unknown: see Bruce Larson, ‘Bickerdike’s life and work’, History of Political Economy 19:1 (1987), 1-21
+ For availability see item on Foxwell Papers in News and Views