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Alec Macfie was born in Partick on 29 May 1898. He went first to school at Hillhead but later joined his brother at the High School of Glasgow where he had a distinguished career.
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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Skinner, A. (1987). Macfie, Alec Lawrence (1898–1980). In: Durlauf, S., Blume, L. (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_7-1
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