John Hicks is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century.
11 Facts About John Hicks
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John Hicks was born in 1904 in Warwick, England, and was the son of Dorothy Catherine and Edward John Hicks, a journalist at a local newspaper.
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John Hicks was educated at Clifton College and at Balliol College, Oxford, and was financed by mathematical scholarships.
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John Hicks graduated with second-class honors and, as he stated, "no adequate qualification in any of the subjects" that he had studied.
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From 1926 to 1935, John Hicks lectured at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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John Hicks 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.
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John Hicks was occupied mainly in writing Value and Capital, which was based on his earlier work in London.
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John Hicks was knighted in 1964 and became an honorary fellow of Linacre College.
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John Hicks was co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1972.
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John Hicks donated the Nobel Prize to the London School of Economics and Political Science's Library Appeal in 1973.
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John Hicks died on 20 May 1989 at his home in the Cotswold village of Blockley.