The National Economic Advisory Council was set up by
second Labour government of United Kingdom
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
James Ramsay MacDonald (; 12 October 18669 November 1937) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 ...
.
The Prime Minister chaired the Council which included several
cabinet ministers, businessmen, the
trade unionist
Ernest Bevin, the economic historian
R. H. Tawney and several economists
G. D. H. Cole,
Hugh Dalton
Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton, (16 August 1887 – 13 February 1962) was a British Labour Party economist and politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947. He shaped Labour Party foreign policy in the 1 ...
,
Maynard Keynes,
A. C. Pigou,
Colin Clark and
Lionel Robbins.
References
1929 establishments in the United Kingdom
Ramsay MacDonald
Economic history of the United Kingdom
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