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Other people|John HicksInfobox economist| name = John Hicks| school_tradition = Neo-Keynesian economics | color = darkorange| image =| image_size =| caption =| birth_date = Birth date|1904|04|08|df=y| birth_place = Warwick , England| death_date = Death date and age|1989|5|20|1904|4|8|df=y| death_place = Blockley , England| nationality = British people|British | institution = London School of Economics University of Manchester Nuffield College, Oxford | alma_mater = Balliol College, Oxford | influences = Lionel Robbins , John Maynard Keynes | opposed =| influenced =| contributions = IS/LM model Capital (economics)|Capital theory, consumer theory , general equilibrium theory , welfare theory , induced innovation | awards = Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1972)| signature = | repec_prefix = e | repec_id = phi7Sir John Richard Hicks (8 April 1904 20 May 1989) was a British economist and one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer theory|consumer demand theory in microeconomics , and the IS/LM model (1937), which summarised a Keynesian view of macroeconomics . His book Value and Capital (1939) significantly extended general equilibrium theory|general-equilibrium and value theory. The compensated demand function is named the Hicksian demand function in memory of him.
In 1972 he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (jointly) for his pioneering contribution to general equilibrium theory and welfare economics|welfare theory . http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1972/index.html
Biography
Early life
Hicks was born in 1904 at Warwick , England. His father was a journalist at a local newspaper.
He was educated at Clifton College (191722) and at Balliol College, Oxford (192226), financed by mathematical scholarships. During his school days, and in his first year at Oxford, he specialised in mathematics but also had interests in literature and history. In 1923, he moved to Philosophy, Politics and Economics , the "new school" just being started at Oxford, graduating with British undergraduate degree classification|second-class honors and, so he states, "no adequate qualification in any of the subjects" that he had studied. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1972/hicks-autobio.html
Career, influences, and honors
Hicks secured a temporary lectureship at the London School of Economics|London School of Economics and Political Science in 1930. He started as a labour economist and did descriptive work on industrial relations but gradually he moved over to the analytical side, where his mathematics background returned to the fore. Influence included Lionel Robbins and such associates as Friedrich von Hayek , R.G.D. Allen , Nicholas Kaldor , and Abba Lerner - and Lady Ursula Hicks|Ursula Webb , who, in 1935, became his wife.
From 1935 to 1938, he lectured at Cambridge University|Cambridge where he was also a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge|Gonville & Caius College . He was mainly occupied in writing Value and Capital , which was based on the work he had done in London. From 1938 to 1946, he was Professor at the University of Manchester . It was there that he did his main work on welfare economics, with its application to social accounting.
In 1946 he returned to Oxford University|Oxford , first as a research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford|Nuffield College (194652), then as Drummond Professor of Political Economy (195265), and finally as a research fellow of All Souls College (196571) where he continued writing after retirement. He was also an honorary fellow of Linacre College, Oxford . He died in 1989.
Hicks was knighted in 1964 and was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (with Kenneth J. Arrow ) in 1972. He donated the Nobel Prize to the London School of Economics|London School of Economics and Political Science 's Library Appeal in 1973. http://www2.lse.ac.uk/ERD/pressAndInformationOffice/LSEFacts/nobelPrizeWinners/hicks.aspx
Contributions to economic analysis
Hicks's early work as a labour economics|labor economist culminated in The Theory of Wages (1932, 2nd ed. 1963), still considered standard in the field. He collaborated with R.G.D. Allen in two seminal papers on value theory published in 1934.
His magnum opus is Value and Capital published in 1939. The book built on ordinal utility and mainstreamed the now-standard distinction between the substitution effect and the income effect for an individual in Consumer theory|demand theory for the 2-good case. It generalised the analysis to the case of one good and a composite good , that is, all other goods. It aggregated individuals and businesses through demand and supply across the economy. It anticipated the aggregation problem , most acutely for the stock of capital goods. It introduced general equilibrium theory to an English-speaking audience, refined the theory for dynamic analysis, and for the first time attempted a rigorous statement of stability conditions for general equilibrium. In the course of analysis Hicks formalised comparative statics . In the same year, he also developed the famous "compensation" criterion called Kaldor-Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons of alternative public policies or economic states.
Hicks's most familiar contribution in macroeconomics was the IS/LM model|Hicks-Hansen IS-LM model ,J.R. Hicks, 1937. "Mr. Keynes and the 'Classics', A Suggested Interpretation," Econometrica , 5(2), p http://www.jstor.org/pss/1907242 p. 147-15. which formalised an interpretation of the theory of John Maynard Keynes (see Keynesianism ). The model describes the economy as a balance between three commodities: money, consumption and investment. Hicks himself did not embrace the theory as he interpreted it; and, in a paper published in 1980, Hicks asserted that it had omitted some crucial components of Keynes's arguments, especially those related to uncertainty .J.R. Hicks, 1980. "'IS-LM': An Explanation" Journal of Post Keynesian Economics , Vol. 3, No. 2 http://www.jstor.org/pss/4537583 p. 139-16.
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Selected publications
1932, 2nd ed., 1963. The Theory of Wages . London, Macmillan.
1934. "A Reconsideration of the Theory of Value," with R. G. D. Allen , Economica .
1937. "Mr Keynes and the Classics: A Suggested Interpretation," Econometrica .
1939. "The Foundations of Welfare Economics", Economic Journal .
1939, 2nd ed. 1946. Value and Capital . Oxford: Clarendon.
1940. "The Valuation of Social Income," Economica , 7:10524.
1941. "The Rehabilitation of Consumers' Surplus," Review of Economic Studies .
1942. The Social Framework: An Introduction to Economics .
1950. A Contribution to the Theory of the Trade Cycle , Oxford: Clarendon.
1956. A Revision of Demand Theory , Oxford: Clarendon.
1958. "The Measurement of Real Income," Oxford Economic Papers .
1959. Essays in World Economics , Oxford: Clarendon.
1961. "Measurement of Capital in Relation to the Measurement of Other Economic Aggregates", in Lutz and Hague, editors, Theory of Capital.
1965. Capital and Growth . Oxford: Clarendon.
1969. A Theory of Economic History . Oxford: Clarendon. Scroll to chapter-preview http://books.google.com/books? id=ll1ju5ZFjZcC& printsec=frontcover& dq=%22john+hicks%22+%22A+Theory+of+Economic+History%22.& source=bl& ots=Y_s7sHj-Qn& sig=CJmlPV2uSr8qRHzeY6_8KdIj4kM& hl=en& ei=DUeqS_zSKoX7lwfsoOTlBA& sa=X& oi=book_result& ct=result& resnum=1& ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage& q=& f=false links.
1970. "Review of Friedman", Economic Journal .
1973. http://nobelprize.org/economics/laureates/1972/hicks-lecture.html "The Mainspring of Economic Growth", Nobel Lectures, Economics 1969-1980 , Editor Assar Lindbeck, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1992.
1973. http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1972/hicks-autobio.html Autobiography for Nobel Prize
1974. "Capital Controversies: Ancient and Modern", American Economic Review .
1975. "What Is Wrong with Monetarism", Lloyds Bank Review .
1976. Economic Perspectives . Oxford: Clarendon
1979, The Formation of an Economist. Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, no. 130 (September 1979): 195-204.
1980. "IS-LM: An Explanation," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics .
1981. Wealth and Welfare: Vol I. of Collected Essays in Economic Theory . Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
1982. Money, Interest and Wages: Vol. II of Collected Essays in Economic Theory . Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
1983. Classics and Moderns: Vol. III of Collected Essays in Economic Theory . Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
1989. A Market Theory of Money . Oxford University Press.
References
Christopher Bliss, 1987 2008. Hicks, John Richard (19041989)," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics . http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/article? id=pde2008_H000052& q=hicks& topicid=& result_number=1 Abstract.
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External links
http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/hicks.htm
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