Austin Robinson
The Life of an Economic Adviser

This biography examines the life and career of Sir Austin Robinson. Now the last survivor of the Cambridge economists of the 1930s and a close associate of Keynes, he began as a seaplane pilot in World War I and spent two years in the 1920s tutoring a maharajah in India.

This biography examines the life and career of Sir Austin Robinson. Now the last survivor of the Cambridge economists of the 1930s and a close associate of Keynes, he began as a seaplane pilot in World War I and spent two years in the 1920s, tutoring a maharajah in India. He was at the centre of economic policy-making during and after World War II, and in post-war years has been professor, editor, promoter of economic debate and economic adviser in many countries.

Preface - Introduction - Early Days - Tutoring a Maharajah - African Survey - The 1930s: early publications - Wartime: 1939-45 - The Postwar Years 1945-48 - Cambridge and elsewhere - Austin the Economist - Austin the Man - Bibliography - Index