Economists - Sir John Richard Hicks (1904-89)

Sir John Hicks is one of an elite group in our Virtual Economy - a Nobel prize winner in Economics. He shared the award of the prize with Professor J.K. Arrow in 1972. He attended Clifton College in Bristol, and from there went to Balliol College Oxford. However, after graduating he lectured at the London School of Economics from 1926 - 1935. He then carried on touring the UK anti-clockwise working at Cambridge for 3 years and then Manchester where he was the Chair of Political Economy. He waited a further 8 years before completing the circle and moving back to Oxford as an Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.

He then settled there for many years and was made the Drummond Professor of Political Economy in 1952. He remained in that post until 1965. Much of the work he did was on microeconomics and many students of economics in recent years have him to thank (??) for the analytical tool of indifference curve analysis. For some more information on his work and theories follow the links below.

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