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Frances Stewart was born in Kendal in August 1940. She had a famous father, the economist Nicholas Kaldor, who in 1950 moved his family from London to a new home in west Cambridge. As a young woman, Frances came to feel that having a famous economist as a father was not wholly a blessing if one was interested in economics oneself. She preferred not to discuss her opinions on economics with her father, because she feared he would say either ‘I have thought of that myself already’ or ‘it is wrong’, and she was not anxious to hear either message. At the same time, her father repeatedly insisted that she was clever enough to think out problems for herself, and this positive message was confidence-building and intellectually empowering for her.
World is crazier and more of it than we think, incorrigibly plural.
Louis MacNeice
This paper is based on a series of conversations with Frances Stewart, and has benefited in preparation from comments by Valpy FitzGerald, Judith Heyer, Julia Knight and Rosemary Thorp, to whom I am most grateful.
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Toye, J. (2011). Social Wellbeing and Conflict: Themes from the Work of Frances Stewart. In: FitzGerald, V., Heyer, J., Thorp, R. (eds) Overcoming the Persistence of Inequality and Poverty. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306721_2
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