Hicks, Sir John Richard
Hicks, Sir John Richard,
1904–89, British economist, grad. Balliol College, Oxford, 1931. He was a professor at the Univ. of Manchester (1938–46) before joining the faculty of Oxford (1946). At the time of his retirement in 1971, Hicks was a research fellow at Oxford's All Souls College. A specialist in equilibrium theory, his writings stress the interrelationships among Economic markets. He was knighted in 1964 and, with Kenneth ArrowArrow, Kenneth Joseph,1921–2017, American economist, b. New York City, grad. City College of New York (B.S. 1940), Columbia (M.A. 1941, Ph.D. 1951). He was on the faculties of the Univ.
..... Click the link for more information. , received the 1972 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. His most important book is Value and Capital (1939).