Background

KALDOR, Nicholas was born in 1908 in Budapest, Hungary.

Education

Nicholas disliked teaching in Germany. He said: "To be at university in Germany meant that you wandered from one lecture to another without any discipline and without having a clear programme of courses to follow. So he left for England in 1927.

Career

Assistant Lector, Reader Economics, London School of Economies and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 1932-1947. Research Association National Institute of Economie and Social Research, London, United Kingdom, 1943-1945. Chief, Economics Planning Staff, United States Strategic Bombing Survey, 1945.

Director, Research and Planning Division, ECE, Geneva, 1947-1949. Member, United Nations Group Experts, International Measures for Full Employment, 1949. Fellow, King’s College Cambridge, since 1949.

Reader Economics, Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1952-1965, 75. Member United Kingdom Royal Commission Taxation of Profits and Income, Adviser Tax Reform, Government India, 1956.

Economics Adviser, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America, Santiago, Chile, 1956. Fiscal Adviser,

Governments: Ceylon, 1958, Mexico, 1960, British Guiana, 1961, Turkey, 1962, Iran, 1966, Venezuela, 1976. Ford Visiting Research Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., United States of America, 1959-1960.

Economics Adviser, Government Ghana, 1961. Visiting Economics, Reserve Bank Australia, 1963. Special Adviser, United Kingdom Chancellor Exchequer, 1964-1968, 1974-1976.

Professor Emeritus, Fellow, King’s College, Cambridge, since 1975.

Achievements

• Fellow, British Academy, 1963. Honorary Fellow, London School of Economies and Political Science, London, United Kingdom, 1970. President, Section F, British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1970, Royal Economic Society, United Kingdom, 1974-1976.
  
  Created Life Peer, 1974. Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Economic Association, Royal Economic Society, United Kingdom of Belgium, Hungarian Academy Sciences.

Works

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  • Expenditure Tax

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  • Further Essays on Economic Theory (Collected economic essays)

    (Book by Kaldor, Nicholas)

  • Further Essays on Applied Economics (Collected economic essays)

    (Book by Kaldor, Nicholas)

  • Essays on Value and Distribution

    (Economics. Blue cloth covers very nice, spine ends bumped...)

  • Further Essays on Economic Theory / Nicholas Kaldor

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  • Further Essays on Applied Economics / Nicholas Kaldor

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  • Expenditure Tax (Unwin University Books)
  • AN EXPENDITURE TAX.
  • Essays on Value & Distribution
  • Expenditure Tax 1 Reprint edition by Kaldor, Nicholas (2008) Paperback
  • Essays on value and distribution / [by] Nicholas Kaldor
  • Essays on Economic Stability and Growth: Collected Economic Essays (Nicholas Kaldor Essays)
  • Essays on economic stability and growth / Nicholas Kaldor
  • ESSAYS ON ECONOMIC STABILITY AND GROWTH [Import] [Hardcover]
  • Further Essays on Applied Economics
  • Economic Consequences of Mrs.Thatcher: Speeches in the House of Lords, 1979-82 (Paperducks)
  • The economic consequences of Mrs Thatcher: Speeches, 1979-82 (Fabian tract)

Views

See my introductions to Collected Economic Essays, particularly vols 1,3, and 5.