Andrew Glyn
Andrew John Glyn, (30 June 1943 – 22 December 2007) was a United Kingdom-based economist, University Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Economics in Corpus Christi College. A Marxist economist, his research interests focussed on issues of unemployment and inequality.
He was Associate Editor: Oxford Review of Economic Policy. He was a consultant for the National Union of Mineworkers and for the International Labour Organisation.
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[edit] Background
Glyn was born in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire.[1] He was the son of John Glyn, the 6th Baron Wolverton, of the Williams & Glyn's Bank banking dynasty.[2] On 22 December 2007, he died of a brain cancer at the Sobell House hospice in Oxford.[3]
[edit] Politics
In the 1970's and early 1980's Glyn was a member of the Trotskyist Militant tendency in Oxford, writing a pamphlet critiquing the 'Alternative Economic Strategy' of the [Tribune|Tribune (magazine)] group of MPs, Capitalist Crisis or Socialist Plan in 1978.[4]
In 1984 Glyn also wrote The Economic Case Against Pit Closures for the National Union of Mineworkers to counter the energy policy of the Thatcher government.[5]
[edit] Published books
- Capitalism Unleashed. Oxford University Press, 2006.[6]
- Social democracy in neoliberal times : the left and economic policy since 1980. Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Colliery closures and the decline of the UK coal industry, with Stephen Machin. Oxford : Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford, 1996.
- The North, the South, and the environment : ecological constraints and the global economy, with V Bhaskar. St. Martin's Press, 1995.
- British Capitalism, Workers and the Profit Squeeze, with Bob Sutcliffe. Penguin, 1972; also translated into Italian, German, and Japanese.
- The British Economic Disaster, with John Harrison. Pluto, 1980; (also translated into Japanese).
- Capitalism Since World War II: The Making and Breakup of the Great Boom, with Philip Armstrong and John Harrison. Fontana, 1984. 2nd edition as Capitalism Since 1945, Blackwells 1991. Also translated into Chinese and Korean.
- A Million Jobs a Year. Verso, 1985.
- Capitalism in crisis, with Robert B Sutcliffe. Pantheon Books, 1972.
- British capitalism, workers and the profits squeeze with Robert B Sutcliffe. Penguin, 1972.
[edit] Other published works
He also published 36 peer-reviewed journal articles, many book chapters and a number of essays. He additionally wrote a number of magazine articles and newspaper columns, including those in The Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, and New York Times,
[edit] References
- ^ Obituary: Andrew Glyn, The Guardian, 1 January 2008 - retrieved 30 August 2011
- ^ Andrew Glyn: Leading left-wing economist devoted to the study of inequality, The Independent, 7 January 2008 - retrieved 30 August 2011
- ^ Sutcliffe, Bob (January 2011). "Glyn, Andrew John (1943-2007)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/99345.
- ^ Andrew Glyn, Socialism Today, issue 115, February 2008 - retrieved 30 August 2011
- ^ Andrew Glyn, Socialism Today, issue 115, February 2008 - retrieved 30 August 2011
- ^ OUP catalog entry. Reviewed in The Guardian [1], International Review of Applied Economics [2], World Economics [3], and De Economist [4]; interview and review in Socialist Review [5].
