George Donald Alastair MacDOUGALL

Background

MacDOUGALL, George Donald Alastair was born in 1912 in Glasgow, Scotland.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts University Oxford, 1935, 1938. Honorary Doctor of Laws University Strathclyde, 1968. Honorary DLitt Leeds, 1971.

Honorary Doctor of Science University Aston, Birmingham,

1979.

Career

Assistant Lector, University Leeds, 1936-1939. Prime Minister Churchill’s State Branch, 1939-1945, 1951-1953. Fellow, Wadham College, Nuffield College Oxford,

50, 1947-1960.

Economics Director, Organisation of European Economic Co-operation, Paris, 1948-1949. Member, Commission on Fiscal System, Venezuela, 1958. Visiting Professor, American National University, 1959, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA Center International Studies, New Delhi, 1961.

Economics Director, United Kingdom National Economics Development Office, 1962-1964. Member, Turnover Tax Committee, 1963-1964. Director General, United Kingdom Department Economics Affairs, 1964-1968.

Head, United Kingdom Government Economics Service, Chief Economics Adviser, United Kingdom Treasury, 1969-1973. Chief Economics Advisory Confederation British Industry, London, 1973-1984. Chairman, European Economie Community Study Group, Role of Public Finances in European Integration,7.

Retired, 1984.

Achievements

• Order of the British Empire, 1942. Commander of the British Empire, 1945. Knighted, 1953; Fellow, British Academy, 1966.
  
  Honorary Fellow, Wadham College, Nuffield College, Oxford, since 1964, since 1967. President, Royal Economic Society, United Kingdom, 1972-1974. Chairman, Executive Committee, National Institute of Economie and Social Research, London, United Kingdom, since 1974.
  
  President, Society Strategic and Long Range Planning. Vice-President, Society Business Economics.

Works

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  • Monographs on Social Economics (NYS Dept of Labor Exhibit at LA Purchase Expo: I. Typical Employers' Welfare Institutions in New York; II. Labor Legislation in New York; III. The Work of the Department of Labor; IV. The Growth of Industry in New York

    (7" x 5"; four short monographs prepared for the New York ...)

  • THE WORLD DOLLAR PROBLEM. A STUDY IN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS(signed)

    (London 1957 first edition Macmillan. Hardcover. Octavo, 6...)

  • The world dollar problem : a study in international economics.
  • The Dollar Problem: A Reappraisal - Essays in International Finance Number 35
  • The dollar problem: A reappraisal (Essays in international finance)
  • The World Dollar Problem: A Study in International Economics
  • The Dollar Problem, a Reappraisal: Essays in International Finance, No. 35, November, 1960
  • The dollar problem: A reappraisal. Princeton, N.J., International Finance Sections, Dept. of Economics, Princeton University, 1960 (Essays in international finance)

Views

The use of economic analysis, and usually a quantitative approach, to illuminate real problems of policy that have arisen during the past half-century in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, including Western Europe, the United States, Venezuela, India and Australia. The attempt to educate students, civil servants, politicians, businessmen and others.

Connections

Mother:

Beatrice Miller