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Susan Howson

Professor Emeritus
Ph.D. (Cambridge, 1975), M.A. (Cambridge, 1974), M.Sc. (LSE, 1969), B.A. (LSE, 1967)
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Research fields: History of economic thought, Economic history, International economics, Macroeconomics

Selected research

  • Susan Howson, Lionel Robbins on the Principles of Economic Analysis: the 1930s Lectures, Routledge, London, 2018.
  • Susan Howson, Lionel Robbins, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York (pp xiii +1161), 2011.
  • Susan Howson, The Collected Papers of James Meade (4 volume set), Routledge, London, 2004.
  • Susan Howson, British Monetary Policy 1945-51, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.
  • Susan Howson, Domestic Monetary Management in Britain, 1919-38, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (pp. ix + 213), 1975.
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Honors and awards

  • Connaught Senior Research Fellowships in the Social Sciences 2004 and, 2007.
  • Ellen McArthur Prize in Economic History, University of Cambridge (awarded for PhD dissertation), 1975.
  • T.S. Ashton Prize, Economic History Society (awarded for article 'The Origins of Dear Money, 1919-20'), 1973.