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Robin C.O. Matthews, 1927-2010

Born in Edinburgh, Robert ("Robin") Charles Oliver Matthews was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 

R.C.O. Matthews went on to became a lecturer at St. John's College, Cambridge during the early post-war period. A pioneering researcher in the business cycle and growth theory in the Oxbridge tradition.

In 1965, Matthews held the Drummond Professorship at Oxford.  In 1976, he moved back to Cambridge, to become master of Clare College and later the Cambridge Chair in Political Economy. 

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Major Works of R.C.O. Matthews

  • "The Trade Cycle in Britain, 1790-1850", 1954, Oxford EP
  • A Study in Trade-Cycle History: Economic Fluctuations in Great Britain, 1833-1842, 1954
  • "The Saving Function and the Problem of Trend and Cycle", 1955, RES
  • The Business Cycle, 1959.
  • "Duesenberry on Growth and Fluctuations", 1959, EJ
  • "The Rate of Interest in Growth Models", 1960, Oxford EP.
  • "The Theory of Economic Growth: A survey", with F.H. Hahn, 1964, EJ.
  • "Morality, Competition and Efficiency", 1981, Manchester School
  • British Economic Growth, 1856-1973. with C.H. Feinstein and J.C. Odling-Smee, 1982.
  • "Darwinism and Economic Change", 1984, EJ
  • "The Economics of Institutions and the Sources of Growth", 1986, EJ
  • "Research on Productivity and the Productivity Gap", 1988, NIER

 
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