Background
ARCHIBALD, George was born on December 30, 1926. Son of late 1st Baron Archibald, and Dorothy H. Edwards.
ARCHIBALD, George was born on December 30, 1926. Son of late 1st Baron Archibald, and Dorothy H. Edwards.
Phillips Exeter Academy United States of America, King"s College Cambridge and London School of Economics.
He played a significant role in building the new University of Essex into a premier United Kingdom research centre for the social sciences in the 1960s. He was "firmly in the camp of those who accept the practical value of the price system as a coordinator of decentralized decision making while rejecting the cruder versions of Chicagoism that everything produced by the price system is optimal." And while emphasising "the virtues of the price system" noted that "its unaided operations were, in his own words, "not beyond human wit to improve upon."" (Lipsey, 1996, p1005-1006) Archibald was born in Scotland the first son of George Archibald, 1st Baron Archibald. He completed high school at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, and received his bachelor"s degree in history from Cambridge University in 1943.
After military service in World World War II and Palestine, he completed a Bachelor of Science in economics at the London School of Economics in 1951.
After graduation Archibald taught in Otago, New Zealand, but returned to the London School of Economics (London School of Economics) in 1955 and was appointed to the staff He left London School of Economics in 1964 to join the staff at the newly created University of Essex, where he received a professor"s chair in 1967.
In 1971, he moved to the University of British Columbia. Upon the death of his father, instead of becoming Baron Archibald, he renounced the peerage, expressing the opinion that hereditary honors were empty honors.
He retired from the University of British Columbia in 1991 and returned to Scotland.
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He was one of the founding members of the London School of Economics Staff Seminar on Methodology, Measurement and Testing.
Married 1st Liliana Barou in 1951 (divorced in 1965), 2nd Daphne M. Vincent in 1971.