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'''Sir Ralph George Hawtrey''' ([[22 November]] [[1879]] – [[21 March]] [[1975]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] economist and close friend of [[John Maynard Keynes]]. |
'''Sir Ralph George Hawtrey''' ([[22 November]] [[1879]] – [[21 March]] [[1975]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] economist, and a close friend of [[John Maynard Keynes]]. |
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He studied at [[Eton College]] |
He studied at [[Eton College|Eton]], then [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]], where he graduated in [[1901]] with first-class mathematics honours. He spent the rest of his working life in the study of economics, but held few academic positions, although he did teach at [[Harvard]]. |
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He took a monetary approach towards the economic ups and downs of industry and commerce, advocating changes in the money supply through adjustment in the bank rate of interest, foreshadowing the later work of Keynes. He also advanced in 1931 the concept that became known as the multiplier, a [[coefficient]] showing the effect of a change in total national investment on the amount of total national income. |
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It was his view that the Great Depression was largely the result of a breakdown of the international gold standard. He had played a key role in the Genoa Conference of 1922, which attempted to devise arrangements for a stable return to the gold standard. |
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Hawtrey was knighted in 1956. |
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* [http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:m4LVT4-v0EgJ:eh.net/bookreviews/library/0994+ralph+hawtrey&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=23&gl=us Understanding Business Cycles] |
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Revision as of 00:44, 23 March 2008
Sir Ralph George Hawtrey (22 November 1879 – 21 March 1975) was a British economist, and a close friend of John Maynard Keynes.
He studied at Eton, then Cambridge, where he graduated in 1901 with first-class mathematics honours. He spent the rest of his working life in the study of economics, but held few academic positions, although he did teach at Harvard.
He took a monetary approach towards the economic ups and downs of industry and commerce, advocating changes in the money supply through adjustment in the bank rate of interest, foreshadowing the later work of Keynes. He also advanced in 1931 the concept that became known as the multiplier, a coefficient showing the effect of a change in total national investment on the amount of total national income.
It was his view that the Great Depression was largely the result of a breakdown of the international gold standard. He had played a key role in the Genoa Conference of 1922, which attempted to devise arrangements for a stable return to the gold standard.
Hawtrey was knighted in 1956.
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