Cairncross, Alexander

Alexander Cairncross,
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Name	Cairncross, Alexander Gender: M
Birthname	Alexander Kirkland Cairncross
born on	11 February 1911 at 04:00 (= 04:00 AM )
Place	Lesmahagow, Scotland, 55n39, 3w55
Timezone	GMT h0e (is standard time)
Data source	Quoted BC/BR Rodden Rating AA Collector: Wright
Astrology data	21°19' 21°18 Asc. 11°13'

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Biography

Scottish economist. He became a lecturer in economics, under the considerable influence of John Maynard Keynes (author of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money and one of the leading lights of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, which saw the founding of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund).

During World War II, most of his work was in the Ministry of Aircraft Production, where he rose to become Director of Programmes. In 1946 he served briefly on the staff of The Economist, and subsequently became adviser to the Board of Trade. He was seconded to be the economic adviser to the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation in Paris in 1949. and he left to become Professor of Applied Economics at his old university, Glasgow, in 1951.

Cairncross was instrumental in founding the Scottish Economic Society and was, in 1954, the first editor of its Scottish Journal of Political Economy. He served as an economic adviser to the UK government (1961–64), Head of the Government Economic Service (1964–69) and Master of St Peter's College, Oxford (1969–78), Chancellor of the University of Glasgow (1972–96)

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Relationships

• (has as) mentor relationship with Keynes, John Maynard (born 5 June 1883)

Events

• Death, Cause unspecified 21 October 1998
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Source Notes

Paul Wright quotes birth record

Categories

• Vocation : Education : Administrator (Master, St. Peter's College Oxgord, Chancellor of Glasgow University)

• Vocation : Education : Teacher (Professor of Applied Economics - Glasgow University)

• Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Economics

• Vocation : Politics : Government employee (Head of UK Ecnomic Service)

• Notable : Awards : Knighted