Helen Makower (1 June 1910 in London – 17 May 1998 in Marlborough, Wiltshire) was a British economist. She was the daughter of the writer and music critic

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's Oxford Institute of Statistics before serving in

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's private economics and

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service, during World War II. After the war, she served briefly with the British Control Commission in Germany and later with the United Nations, before returning to academia and the London School of Economics, where she retired as a Reader in 1977. Makower was at the forefront of the statistical turn in the British economics of the 1930s, and remained an influential figure after the war, acting as an important link between the mathematical economics developed at the

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and British economics.

Works

*Makower, Helen, ''Activity Analysis and the Theory of Economic Equilibrium'' (London : Macmillan 1957).

Bibliography

*Lancaster, K. J. (1987), "Makower, Helen". In J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman, ''The New Palgrave'', vol. 3, London: Macmillan, p. 280.

References

1910 births 1998 deaths Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge Alumni of the London School of Economics British women economists 20th-century British economists People from Marlborough, Wiltshire {{UK-economist-stub