Background
BLACK, Duncan was born in 1908 in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
BLACK, Duncan was born in 1908 in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
Master of Arts (Maths, and Physics), Master of Arts (Economics and Political Philosophy), Doctor of Philosophy Glasgow University, 1929, 1932, 1937.
Black was born in Motherwell, Scotland, an industrial town south east of Glasgow, to a working-class family. He started teaching at the newly formed Dundee School of Economics (later part of the University of Dundee). He later taught at the University College of North Wales (now Bangor University) and Glasgow.
Black had difficulties finding editors willing to publish his work, and some of it was self-published and he remained relatively unknown.
Black also had visiting positions in the United States, at the universities of Rochester, Chicago, Virginia and Michigan State. The archives for Duncan Black are maintained by the of the University of Glasgow (GUAS).
(In this book, first published in 1958, the social choice ...)
(In this book, first published in 1958, the social choice ...)
(First Published in 1965. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
(R. H. Coase Duncan Black was a close and dear friend. A m...)
He then enrolled for a degree in economics and politics which he finished with first class honors in 1932. These occurred after William H. Riker reviewed his work in 1961.
The Festschrift volume, Towards a Science of Politics, educated G. Tullock (Public Choice Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and State University, 1981) provides a biographical sketch by R. H. Coase and also gives a discussion of my work by B. Grufman.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.