John R. Hicks

John R. Hicks, Nobel Laureate

Born: 1904-04-08 in Warwick, United Kingdom

Gender: male

Field: British economist (1904–1989)

Biography

Sir John Richard Hicks was a British economist. He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics, and the IS–LM model (1937), which summarised a Keynesian view of macroeconomics. His book Value and Capital (1939) significantly extended general-equilibrium and value theory. The compensated demand function is named the Hicksian demand function in memory of him.

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Nobel Prize Details

The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1972

Awarded on: 1972-10-25

"for their pioneering contributions to general economic equilibrium theory and welfare theory"

Affiliations:

  • All Souls CollegeOxford, United Kingdom