Andrew Glyn | |
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Born | Tetsworth, England | 30 June 1943
Died | 22 December 2007 Oxford, England | (aged 64)
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Academic, economist |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Economics |
Sub-discipline | Unemployment, Economic inequality |
Institutions | Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
Notable works | Oxford Review of Economic Policy |
Hon. Andrew John Glyn (30 June 1943 – 22 December 2007) was an English economist, University Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Economics in Corpus Christi College. A Marxian economist, his research interests focused on issues of unemployment and inequality.
He was Associate Editor of Oxford Review of Economic Policy. He was a consultant for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and for the International Labour Organisation.
Glyn was born in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire.[1] He was the son of John Glyn, the 6th Baron Wolverton, of the Williams & Glyn's Bank banking dynasty.[2] He attended Eton and went on to study economics at Oxford University before becoming a government economist from 1964 to 1966.[1] He was appointed to a fellowship in economics at Corpus Christi where he worked for the rest on his life.[1] During his time at Oxford he tutored both David and Ed Miliband: Ed Miliband's adviser Stewart Wood has described Glyn as Miliband's biggest intellectual influence.[3]
On 22 December 2007, he died of a brain cancer at the Sobell House hospice in Oxford.[4]
In the 1970s and early 1980s Glyn was a member of the Trotskyist Militant tendency in Oxford, writing a pamphlet critiquing the 'Alternative Economic Strategy' of the Tribune group of MPs, Capitalist Crisis or Socialist Plan in 1978.[5]
In 1984 Glyn wrote The Economic Case Against Pit Closures for the National Union of Mineworkers to counter the energy policy of the Thatcher government.[5]
He published 36 peer-reviewed journal articles, many book chapters and a number of essays. He additionally wrote a number of magazine articles and newspaper columns, including those in The Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, and The New York Times.