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This chapter surveys the contributions of Robert Lowe Hall to Oxford pedagogy, Oxford economics and economic policy making in Britain. After arriving from Australia as a Rhodes Scholar to study at Oxford, he gained a First in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and stayed on in Britain to work as an Oxford don, becoming a member of the Oxford Economists’ Research Group and co-authoring an influential paper with Charles Hitch. Hall undertook work for the British government during the Second World War, and afterwards became Director of the Economic Section in the UK Cabinet Office and later Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury. After a decade in the House of Lords, he became a spokesperson for the Social Democratic Party. Hall also served as Chairman of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, President of the Royal Economic Society and Principal of Hertford College, Oxford.
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Main Works by Robert Hall
Hall, R.L. (1934). Earning and Spending. London: Centenary Press.
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Hall, R.L. (1955). ‘The Place of the Economist in Government’. Oxford Economic Papers, New Series, 7(2): 119–135.
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Hall, R.L. (1970). ‘Problems of Aggregation and Dis-Aggregation in Macro-Economic Policy’. Economic Analysis and Policy, 1(1): 1–13.
Hall, R.L. (1981a). ‘Are the Unions Usurping Parliament?: Why I Have Changed My Mind on Incomes Policy’. Economic Affairs, 1(3): 149–155.
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Hall, R.L. (1983). ‘International Economic Cooperation After 1945’. History Today, 12 December. Available at: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/international-economic-co-operation-after-1945.
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Young, W. (2021). Robert Lowe Hall (1901–1988). In: Cord, R.A. (eds) The Palgrave Companion to Oxford Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58471-9_14
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