R. G. D. Allen

Sir Roy George Douglas Allen
CBE
Sir Roy George Douglas Allen CBE
	Allen in 1978
Born	3 June 1906; Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England
Died	29 September 1983 (aged 77); Southwold, Suffolk, England
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	Partial elasticity of substitution
Awards	Guy Medal (gold, 1978)
	Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	London School of Economics

Sir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA (3 June 1906 – 29 September 1983) was an English economist, mathematician and statistician, also member of the International Statistical Institute.

Life

Allen was born in Worcester and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester, from which he won a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He gained a First Class Honours in Mathematics, ranking top of his year as the Senior Wrangler.

He became a lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE) later becoming Professor of Statistics. He wrote many papers and books on mathematical economics including the famous paper on A Reconsideration of the Theory of Value published in Economics in 1934 with Sir John Hicks. Other books include: Mathematical Analysis for Economists (1938), Statistics for Economists (1949), Mathematical Economics (1956), and Macroeconomic Theory (1967).

Allen was knighted in 1966 for his services to economics and became president of the Royal Statistical Society, who awarded him the Guy Medal in Gold in 1978. He was also treasurer of the British Academy of which he was a fellow (FBA).

He introduced the concept of "partial elasticity of substitution" to economics in his famous 1938 book Mathematical Analysis for Economists.

Allen became a fellow of Sidney Sussex, Cambridge and died in 1983. He had a son, Jeremy, who was a co-founder of the consultancy International Planning and Research, and a grandson, Dion.

Publications (selection)

"The Nature of Indifference Curves", 1934, RES.
"The Concept of the Arc Elasticity of Demand", 1934, RES
"A Reconsideration of the Theory of Value", 1934, Economica, Part II 1(2), pp. 196-219. (Part I by J.R. Hicks)
Family Expenditure with A.L. Bowley, 1935.
Mathematical Analysis for Economists, 1938. 1st-page chapter links. Review fragments by J.R. Hicks [1] and Carl F. Christ (1st paragraph).[2]
"The Supply of Engineering Labor under Boom Conditions", with B. Thomas, 1939, Economic Journal.
Statistics for Economists, 1949. Review by Wilhelm Winkler [3] (German).
"Index Numbers of Retail Prices, 1938-51", 1952, Applied Statistics.
Mathematical Economics, 1956. Review fragments by Oskar Morgenstern [4], C.F. Carter,[5] and Carl F. Christ (2nd and 3rd para.).[6]
Macroeconomic Theory, 1967.
"On Official Statistics and Official Statisticians", 1970, J of Royal Statistical Society.
Index Numbers in Theory and Practice, 1975.
Introduction to National Accounts Statistics, 1980.

References

^ Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter (1987). The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics - Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - Google Books. ISBN 9780333372357. Retrieved 27 June 2012 – via Google Books.

Sources

Obituaries

E. Grebenik Roy George Douglas Allen 1906–1983, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General), Vol. 147, No. 5 (1984), pp. 706–707.
Obituary: Sir Roy Allen, CBE, FBA (1906-1983, The Statistician, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 401–406. (includes list of Allen's publications.)

External links

New School: Roy G. D. Allen

[1] Eatwell, John; Milgate, Murray; Newman, Peter (1987). The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics - Sir Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave - Google Books. ISBN 9780333372357. Retrieved 27 June 2012 – via Google Books.

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21st century	2001–2003 Peter Green 2003–2005 Andy Grieve 2005–2007 Tim Holt 2008–2009 David Hand 2010–2010 Bernard Silverman (resigned Feb 2010; replaced pro tem by David Hand) 2011–2012 Valerie Isham 2013–2014 John Pullinger 2014–2016 Peter Diggle 2017–2018 David Spiegelhalter 2019– Deborah Ashby
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1951–1975	R. G. D. Allen (1951) Paul Samuelson (1952) René Roy (1953) Wassily Leontief (1954) Richard Stone (1955) Kenneth Arrow (1956) Trygve Haavelmo (1957) James Tobin (1958) Marcel Boiteux (1959) Lawrence Klein (1960) Henri Theil (1961) Franco Modigliani (1962) Edmond Malinvaud (1963) Robert Solow (1964) Michio Morishima (1965) Herman Wold (1966) Hendrik Houthakker (1967) Frank Hahn (1968) Leonid Hurwicz (1969) Jacques Drèze (1970) Gérard Debreu (1971) W. M. Gorman (1972) Roy Radner (1973) Don Patinkin (1974) Zvi Griliches (1975)
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