Durbin, Evan Frank Mottram 1906-1948
Archival location guide — where this economist’s surviving papers are held, their notable correspondents, and key published sources.
Born 1906 · died 1948
Evan Frank Mottram Durbin was a British economist and Labour Party politician, whose writings combined a belief in central economic planning with a conviction that the price mechanism of markets was indispensable.
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Papers including lecture notes, drafts, research notes and correspondence.
Durbin Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
Correspondents
COLIN GRANT CLARK, Correspondence 1927-48, Clark Papers, Brasenose College Oxford
EDWARD HUGH JOHN NEALE DALTON, Correspondence and memoranda, 1934-46, Dalton Papers, BLPES
GOTTFRIED HABERLER, Correspondence 1934, League of Nations Archives, Geneva
HUGH TODD NAYLOR GAITSKELL, Correspondence 1932-47, Gaitskell Papers, University College London (UCL)
JAMES EDWARD MEADE, Correspondence 1932-3, Meade Papers, BLPES
ARNOLD PLANT, Correspondence 193Os, Plant Papers, BLPES
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1932-46, Robbins Papers, BLPES
FABIAN SOCIETY, Memoranda and related correspondence 1931-44, Fabian Society Papers, BLPES
LABOUR PARTY, Memoranda and correspondence, 1941-4, Labour Party Archives, Museum of Labour History, Manchester
Printed material
Elizabeth Durbin, New Jerusalems: The Labour Party and the Economics of Democratic Socialism (London: Routledge, 1985)
ODNB; New Palgrave I 945
Portraits
Elizabeth Durbin, New Jerusalems (1985)