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Although Roy Allen was officially a member of the Statistics Department at LSE, he made many important contributions to economic theory in the 1930s, including joint articles with John Hicks. He became a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1935 and taught courses in econometrics at LSE from 1935 to 1940 and again in 1947 and 1948. His 1938 Mathematical Analysis for Economists remained the standard text well into the 1960s, and he wrote important textbooks in economics. Allen also had an important input into public service through his membership of public commissions and other activities, for which he was rewarded with a CBE, an OBE and a knighthood.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Cairncross (1984: 379) reports that Allen rejected ‘all offers from elsewhere however tempting, including a Chair at Oxford (“far too parochial to suit me”) and the Mastership of a Cambridge college. When presented to the Queen at a British Academy reception, he was asked by Her Majesty why he had stayed so long in one place and replied with his usual quiet modesty: “If one happens to be in the best place, why should one move?”’.

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    The ½p coin remained in circulation until 1984, by which time inflation had sufficiently reduced its value for it to be taken out of circulation.

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    Professor William Baxter, a colleague and friend of Roy Allen, delivered one of the tributes at the Memorial Meeting. In his address, he said: ‘Roy liked the Senior Common Room, and often joined in its discussions. I remember something he said that may still have interest. In the ‘sixties, he was on the committee that planned the switch to decimal currency. One day he came in with—unusual for him—a look of some disappointment. He said that the government had misled the committee into adopting as the base unit of the new scheme the pound. The committee would have preferred the half-pound (and, as experience in South Africa and elsewhere has shown, 10 shillings was indeed a simpler unit)’ (LSE 1984: 1).

  4. 4.

    I can vouch for this from the comments I received from my tutees and from my own experience as a student.

  5. 5.

    To avoid duplication, Allen’s econometric involvement with the Cowles Commission and the Econometric Society is presented in Chapter 1 of this volume.

  6. 6.

    The development of courses on econometrics at LSE is considered in more detail in Chapter 1 of this volume on ‘LSE and Econometrics’.

  7. 7.

    Although Allen was officially a statistician, he had a strong interest in economics and attended the famous Robbins seminar in the 1930s (see Howson 2011: 250–252). This close connection continued, and in discussing the strengths of the Economics Department in the 1950s, Robbins included among the assets ‘R.G.D. Allen, now Professor of Statistics, virtually a member of the department in his capacity of mathematical economist’ (Robbins 1971: 218). The one exception to the run of articles on economic theory was ‘The Assumptions of Linear Regression’ (Allen 1939), which contained an algebraic analysis of an ‘errors-in-variables’ model with two variables.

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    In referring to this article in the Introduction to the volume, Hicks wrote: ‘This appeared in two parts, one of them being signed by me the other by my collaborator; but, as was explained, this did not properly represent the division of the work between us. He [Allen] has agreed, this being so, that both parts should appear here’ (Hicks 1981: xii). The importance of these two articles will not be explored further here to avoid duplicating material in the chapter on Hicks in this volume.

  9. 9.

    There were other reviews by Williams (1936) and Marschak (1936).

  10. 10.

    Brinley Thomas was one of the young economists at LSE who sided with Keynes in the Keynes versus Hayek controversy and claimed to have suffered as a result: ‘The ruling powers were passionate believers in freedom, and this included freedom to adjust the constraints within which freedom was exercised by the non-favorites. The main type of adjustment was the postponement of tenure. In my own case I did not receive tenure until, on the advice of Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders [then Director of LSE], I moved from monetary theory to migration and economic growth’ (Thomas 1991: 390).

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    One reviewer compared Allen’s book with Bowley’s Mathematical Groundwork of Economics (Bowley 1924) and was ‘struck immediately with the greatly extended use of mathematics that has taken place in the fourteen years between the two publications. For Bowley a short account of the elements of the differential calculus with applications to extreme values and the development of functions sufficed. With Allen we find, in addition to a great deal of quite elementary work, a fairly full account of the calculus, including a treatment of differentials, and also some account of differential equations, determinants and quadratic forms, and the calculus of variations’ (Belz 1938: 269). There were also reviews by Davis (1939), Hicks (1939), Hotelling (1939), Schneider (1938), Tintner (1938), Tintner (1939), in which he states that ‘Mr. Allen is one of the most prominent young English economists and statisticians, and he has himself made very important contributions to economic theory which he has partly incorporated in his treatise’ (ibid.: 272), and Yntema (1940).

  12. 12.

    Arnold Tustin was an electrical engineer with wide interests, and in the book under review, he showed how a wide range of economic models could be represented by closed-loop systems. At the time he was writing the book, he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at Birmingham University and he acknowledged getting feedback on the text from his colleagues, Frank Hahn and Terence Gorman.

  13. 13.

    Chapter 16 on ‘British Colonies and Dependencies’ contains data on many of the world’s tax havens, but as information on the capital account is not considered in the book, it has little of interest to offer the modern reader. For reviews, see Adler (1954), Kindleberger (1954), Makower (1955) and Morgenstern (1955).

  14. 14.

    The absence of references to US data and exercises was criticism raised by two reviewers (see Fisk 1976 and Folkerts-Landau 1976).

  15. 15.

    See Phillips (1954a, 1956, 1957). Phillips reviewed Tustin’s book (see Phillips 1954b). Both Tustin and Phillips agreed that analogue models would help to deal with nonlinearities in economic systems, but whereas Tustin’s analogue models were electrical circuits, Phillips developed the Phillips Machine, in which coloured water flowing through tubes was used to show the workings of an economy (see Phillips 1950), which had more visual appeal than electrical circuits to economists. For a full discussion of Phillips’s work, see Chapter 23 in this volume.

  16. 16.

    The book was reviewed by Baumol (1957), Carter (1958), Christ (1958), Fabian (1958), Morgenstern (1958), Roy (1957) and Theil (1958).

  17. 17.

    See McKenzie (1998) for a discussion of the turnpike theorem.

  18. 18.

    It received somewhat mixed reviews from Ball (1969), De Menil (1969), Dernberg (1968) and Parry Lewis (1968).

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