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Sir Ralph George Hawtrey (22 November 1879, Slough – 21 March 1975, London) was a British economist, and a close friend of John Maynard Keynes. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the University of Cambridge intellectual secret society.
Ralph Hawtrey (born November 22, 1879, Slough, Buckinghamshire, England—died March 21, 1975, London) was a British economist who developed a concept that later became known as the multiplier. Hawtrey was educated at Eton and the University of Cambridge, graduating with first-class honours in mathematics in 1901.
21. Feb. 2017 · Ralph Hawtrey played a leading part in the development of macroeconomic thought and monetary theory, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. He provided the pre-Keynesian world with the textbook foundation of an approach to the analysis of aggregate economic performance and the place of money in the economy.
- Patrick Deutscher
- Patrick.deutscher@queensu.ca
- 2017
Policies and ethics. The career of Ralph George Hawtrey spanned the first three-quarters of this century. He came to public attention in 1897 when his article in the Fortnightly Review attacked British naval procedures and brought his father the congratulations of Gladstone.1 He remained...
- E. G. Davis
- 1981
1. Jan. 2018 · Hawtrey was born in Slough, near London, and went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, from Eton in 1898. Three years later he graduated 19th Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos. Hawtrey remained at Cambridge for a further period to read for the civil service...
The papers held at Churchill Archives Centre range from Hawtrey's early days in the Treasury to his death in 1974, and include Treasury Papers, Chatham House papers, correspondence, articles, reviews and unpublished manuscript material.
Through the parallel study of Treasury files and Hawtrey’s scholarly publications, this work reveals his direct influence upon the most commanding minds of the Treasury and the Bank of England, the two institutions that, after WWI, shared primary responsibility over the British austerity agenda.
