Robert Rowthorn

Robert Rowthorn
Born (1939-08-20)20 August 1939
Newport, Monmouthshire
Nationality United Kingdom
Institution University of Cambridge
School or
tradition
Marxian economics
Alma mater Jesus College, Oxford
Influences Karl Marx
Influenced Ha-Joon Chang

Robert "Bob" Rowthorn (born 20 August 1939) is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and has been elected as a Life Fellow of King’s College.[1][2] He is also a Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Population Research at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford.

Life

Rowthorn was born in 1939 in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales. He attended Jesus College, Oxford reading mathematics. He took a post-graduate research fellowship at Berkeley again in mathematics. He returned to Oxford and switched to economics, taking a two-year B.Phil. He then got a job at Cambridge as an economist.[3]

He was an editor of the radical newspaper The Black Dwarf.[4]

He has authored many books and academic articles on economic growth, structural change and employment. His work has been influenced by Karl Marx and critics of capitalism. He has worked as a consultant to various UK government departments and private sector firms and organisations, and to international organisations such as the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Labour Organisation.[5] Many of his publications have a Marxist slant.[6]

Rowthorn has been described by Susan Strange as being one of the few Marxists (another being Stephen Hymer) who is read in business schools.[7]

Among other things, he has identified the so-called paradox of costs, whereby higher real wages lead to higher profit margins.[8]

Selected works

Books

Book chapters

Journal articles

Kaldor, Nicholas (December 1975). "Economic growth and the Verdoorn Law - a comment on Mr Rowthorn's article". The Economic Journal (Wiley for the Royal Economic Society) 85 (340): 891–896. doi:10.2307/2230633. JSTOR 2230633. [9]:357-362
Rowthorn, Robert E. (December 1975). "A reply to Lord Kaldor's comment". The Economic Journal (Wiley for the Royal Economic Society) 85 (340): 897–901. doi:10.2307/2230634. JSTOR 2230634. [9]:363-367
In response to: letto-Gillies, Grazia (June 1990). "Was deindustrialization in the UK inevitable? Some comments on the Rowthorn-Wells analysis". International Review of Applied Economics (Taylor and Francis) 4 (2): 209–223. doi:10.1080/758523675. 
and: Auerbach, Paul (January 1989). "Review: Rowthorn, R.E. and Wells, J.R. 1987: De-industrialization and foreign trade". International Review of Applied Economics (Taylor and Francis) 3 (1): 115–121. doi:10.1080/758532015. 

Notes

  1. Emeritus Faculty, University of Cambridge
  2. Annual Report, King’s College, 2009
  3. Interview of Robert Rowthorn by Alan Macfarlane, 13 June 2008
  4. Dworkin (1997) p. 282
  5. Bob Rowthorn bio from the Battle of Ideas website
  6. Glyn (1980)
  7. Strange (1997) p. 93
  8. Rowthorn (1981)
  9. 1 2 3 Reprinted in: King, John E. (1994). Economic growth in theory and practice: a Kaldorian perspective. Aldershot, England Brookfield, Vermont, USA: E. Elgar Pub. ISBN 9781852789558.

References

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