Michael Vivian Posner (25 August 1931 – 14 February 2006) was a

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lecturer turned government adviser, who later worked to safeguard social science research in the

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Biography

Posner was born to Jack and Lena Posner. His father, originally a cabinet-maker, had immigrated from

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to escape

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s against the

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community. Posner’s maternal grandparents had also fled European persecution. He grew up in Ilford. After

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the family settled in

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, where Posner attended

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. He then went to Balliol College, Oxford. In 1953, Posner married linguist Rebecca Reynolds. Together they had two children: a son, Christopher, and a daughter, Barbara.Rebecca Posner, former Fellow of the College, has died at 88
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Works

* Posner, Michael V. (1961), International Trade and Technical Change, in: Oxford Economic Papers, Jahrgang 13, Nr. 3, 1961, S. 323–341.

External links

Times Obituary

References

1931 births 2006 deaths Academics of the University of Cambridge British economists Commanders of the Order of the British Empire People educated at Whitgift School {{UK-economist-stub