Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh
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Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh (Budapest, 2 November 1905 – 20 January 1985) was a Hungarian economist and member of the British House of Lords.
He was born into a middle class Jewish family. Balogh moved to England in the 1930s and for many years was a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford and London School of Economics. He advised governments all over the world, including India, Australia, Jamaica, Malta and the United Kingdom.
Balogh was an adviser to successive leaders of the Labour Party and in 1964 was made Economic Adviser to the Cabinet. He was made a life peer in June 1968 as Baron Balogh of Hampstead in Greater London and became a Minister of State for Energy from 1974 to 1977.
In 1970, Balogh married Catherine Storr, née Cole, (1913–2001), children's writer and psychiatrist. He died in 1985.
[edit] Major works
- The Dollar Crisis (1949)
- The Economics of Poverty (1955)
- The Irrelevance of Conventional Economics (1982)
[edit] Biographies
- The Life and Times of Thomas Balogh: A Macaw Among Mandarins, June Morris (Sussex Academic Press, 2007).[1]
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