The Professorship of Political Economy is a permanently established

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at the

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, founded in 1863, and assigned to the Faculty of Economics. The professorship was established in perpetuity following the retirement of

George Pryme George Pryme (4 April 1781 – 2 December 1868) was a British economist, academic and politician. Pryme was born in 1781 in Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, the only surviving child of merchant Christopher Pryme and his wife, Alice Dinsdale ...

, who had been elected the first Professor of Political Economy at the university on a single-tenure basis. The university has established two further Professorships of Political Economy for single tenures (i.e. as personal professorships), one in the Department of Politics and Internal Studies in 2016 and one in the Department of Geography in 2017.

Professors of Political Economy (1863)

Henry Fawcett Henry Fawcett (26 August 1833 – 6 November 1884) was a British academic, statesman and economist. Background and education Henry Fawcett was born in Salisbury, and educated at King's College School and the University of Cambridge: enteri ...

(1863) *

Alfred Marshall Alfred Marshall (26 July 1842 – 13 July 1924) was an English economist, and was one of the most influential economists of his time. His book '' Principles of Economics'' (1890) was the dominant economic textbook in England for many years. I ...

(1884) *

Arthur Cecil Pigou Arthur Cecil Pigou (; 18 November 1877 – 7 March 1959) was an English economist. As a teacher and builder of the School of Economics at the University of Cambridge, he trained and influenced many Cambridge economists who went on to take chair ...

(1908) * Dennis Robertson (1944) * James Meade (1957) * William Brian Reddaway (1969) * Robert Charles Oliver Matthews (1980) *

Anthony Barnes Atkinson Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson (4 September 1944 – 1 January 2017) was a British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. A student of James Meade, Atkinson vi ...

(1992) *

James Mirrlees Sir James Alexander Mirrlees (5 July 1936 – 29 August 2018) was a British economist and winner of the 1996 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He was knighted in the 1997 Birthday Honours. Early life and education Born in Minnigaff ...

(1995) *

Aldo Rustichini Aldo Rustichini is an Italian-born American economist, academic and researcher. He is a professor of economics at University of Minnesota, where is also associated with the Interdisciplinary Center for Cognitive Sciences. Rustichini has worked on ...

(2007) *

Oliver Linton Oliver Bruce Linton is a professor of Political Economy and Econometrics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Trinity College. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathem ...

(2011)

Professors of Political Economy (single-tenure establishments)

(1828–1863) * Helen Thompson (2016–) *

Bhaskar Vira Bhaskar Vira is an Indian academic, professor of Political Economy, and the current Pro Vice Chancellor for Education for Cambridge University. From 2019 until 2022 he was Head of Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. He was the fou ...

(2017–)

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Political Economy Political economy is the study of how Macroeconomics, economic systems (e.g. Marketplace, markets and Economy, national economies) and Politics, political systems (e.g. law, Institution, institutions, government) are linked. Widely studied ph ...

School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge 1863 establishments in England Political Economy, *, Cambridge,

Professors of Political Economy (1863)

Professors of Political Economy (single-tenure establishments)

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