Sir Alan Peacock

Sir Alan Peacock's career as an economist spans fifty years from being a lecturer and later reader in Economics at the London School of Economics (1948-56), taking in Professorships in Economics at Edinburgh (1956-62) and York where he founded the Economics Department (1962-78). He ended his full-time academic career as Professor of Economics at Buckingham (1978-84) where he also negotiated the award of its Royal Charter when Principal and later Vice Chancellor (1980-84). He has taught and researched mainly in the economics of public policy with over 30 books and pamphlets and 200 professional articles as publications. He has served on various UK Government and international Commissions and served as Chief Economic Adviser, UK Department of Trade and Industry (1973-76), being knighted for public service in 1987. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, The Italian National Academy dei Lincei (Rome) and of the Institute of Economic Affairs. In his 'official' retirement he became joint founder of The David Hume Institute, Edinburgh, serving as its first Executive Director (1985-91). He is still 'enjoyably busy', extending his research interests to include the economics of legal systems and, unusually, the economics of the creative and performing arts.

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