The Professorship of Political Economy is a permanently established
professorship
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at the
University of Cambridge
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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, 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)
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Henry Fawcett
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Background and education
Henry Fawcett was born in Salisbury where his father was a gentleman farmer. He was educated at the A ...
(1863)
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Alfred Marshall
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(1884)
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Arthur Cecil Pigou
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(1908)
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Dennis Robertson (1944)
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James Meade
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(1957)
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William Brian Reddaway (1969)
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Robert Charles Oliver Matthews (1980)
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Anthony Barnes Atkinson (1992)
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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 Minniga ...
(1995)
[
* ]Aldo Rustichini
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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 Math ...
(2011)
Professors of Political Economy (single-tenure establishments)
* George Pryme (1828–1863)
* Helen Thompson (2016–)
* Bhaskar Vira (2017–)
See also
* List of professorships at the University of Cambridge
References
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Political Economy
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School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge
1863 establishments in England
Political Economy, *, Cambridge,