Phelps Brown, Sir Ernest Henry 1906-94
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Born 1906 · died 1994
Sir Ernest Henry Phelps Brown MBE, FBA was a prominent British economist.
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Research papers, including work on wages and prices, papers concerning public work, book reviews, an enquiry into labour mobility and a brief autobiography.
Phelps Brown Papers, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
Correspondents
JAMES EDWARD MEADE, Correspondence 1947-91, Meade Papers, British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)
LIONEL CHARLES ROBBINS, Correspondence 1946-73, Robbins Papers, BLPES
Printed Material
ODNB VIII, 47-8; David Worswick, ‘Ernest Henry Phelps Brown, 1906-1994’, Proceedings of the British Academy, XC (1996), 319-44; W.K. Hancock and J.E. Isaac, ‘Sir Henry Phelps Brown, 1906-1994’, Economic Journal 108 (May 1998), 757-78
Portraits: Proceedings of the British Academy, 1996