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Marian Bowley was born in 1911, the daughter of the distinguished statistician A.L. Bowley. She was a student at the London School of Economics (1928–31), where she took her BSc (Econ) degree and later her PhD in 1936. She held a series of temporary teaching and research posts and was appointed to a lectureship at the Dundee School of Economics in 1938. After government service during World War II she was appointed to a lectureship at University College, London in 1947 and became successively reader and professor. She retired in 1975 and was made professor emeritus.
This chapter was originally published in The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1st edition, 1987. Edited by John Eatwell, Murray Milgate and Peter Newman
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Corry, B.A. (1987). Bowley, Marian (Born 1911). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_342-1
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