The Drummond Professorship of Political Economy at

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has been held by a number of distinguished individuals, including three

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. The professorship is named after and was founded by Henry Drummond.

List of Drummond Professors

* Nassau Senior, 1825–1830 and 1847–52, the first holder *

Richard Whately Richard Whately (1 February 1787 – 8 October 1863) was an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman ...

, 1830–31 * William Forster Lloyd, 1832–37 * Herman Merivale, 1837– * Travers Twiss, 1841– * Sir George Kettilby Rickards, 1851–1857 *

Charles Neate Charles Neate (1806–1879) was an English politician and academic, economist and political writer. Life He was the fifth of the eleven children of Thomas Neate, rector and squire of Alvescot, Oxfordshire, and his wife Catherine, born at Adsto ...

(1857–1862) * James Edwin Thorold Rogers, 1862–67 and 1888– *

Bonamy Price Bonamy Price (22 May 18078 January 1888) was a British political economist. Biography Price was born at Saint Peter Port, Guernsey, where he lived until age 14, when he left Guernsey and entered the tutelage of Reverend Charles Bradley in High ...

, 1868–1888 *

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (8 February 1845 – 13 February 1926) was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s. From 1891 onward, he was appointed the ...

, 1891–1922 *

David Hutchison Macgregor David Hutchison MacGregor (1877, Monifieth, Angus, Scotland – 8 May 1953, Oxford, England) was a Scottish economist and Drummond Professor of Political Economy at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls, Oxford, from 1921 to 19 ...

, 1921–1945 *Sir Hubert Douglas Henderson, 1945–51 *Sir

John Hicks Sir John Richards Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist. He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economic ...

, 1952–65 * R. C. O. Matthews, 1965–76 *

Joseph Stiglitz Joseph Eugene Stiglitz (; born February 9, 1943) is an American New Keynesian economist, a public policy analyst, and a full professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (2001) and the Joh ...

, 1976–1979 *

Amartya Sen Amartya Kumar Sen (; born 3 November 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher, who since 1972 has taught and worked in the United Kingdom and the United States. Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, econom ...

, 1980–88 *

Sir John Vickers Sir John Vickers (born 7 July 1958) is a British economist and the Warden of All Souls College, Oxford. Education Vickers studied at Eastbourne Grammar School and Oriel College, Oxford. He graduated with a DPhil from the University of Oxford ...

, 1991–2008 (on leave 1998–2005) *

Vincent Crawford Vincent P. Crawford (born 1950) is an American economist. He is a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford, following his tenure as Drummond Professor of Political Economy from 2010 to 2020. He is also research professor at the Univ ...

, 2010–2020

References

External links

Oxford University Economics Department
Political Economy, Drummond Political Economy, Drummond All Souls College, Oxford Lists of people associated with the University of Oxford 1825 establishments in England {{UOxford-stub