He was an overseas fellow between 1983-84 at Churchill College, and gave the Marshall Lecture in 1984, when he demonstrated his theory for drivers of economic growth.
Reading Economics at the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate from 1967 to 1970, and a member of Trinity College, he graduated with a first class degree.
Our deep condolences go to Professor Cockerill’s family, friends and colleagues.
Professor Sanjeev Goyal is a former Chair of Faculty Board of Economics, and was the Founding Director of the Cambridge-INET Institute and knew Tony well.
Professor Luigi Pasinetti was admitted as a research student at the Faculty of Economics in 1956 and returned in 1989 as a Visiting Professor.
The Faculty of Economics is saddened to announce that world renown economist Geoff Harcourt has passed away at the age of 90.
After struggling at school, despite help from a very academic twin brother, Harcourt excelled as a student at the University of Melbourne in the Commerce Department and at Queens College, (tutored by eminent Labour Economist Joe Isaac).
Professor Jayasri Dutta joined the faculty in 1991 as assistant director of research, before moving on in 2000 to take up a chair at the Department of Economics at the University of Birmingham.
During the same period, she was a fellow and Director of Studies at Churchill College.
A biological chemist, he was a pioneer in the field of fragment-based drug discovery, a successful entrepreneur, a founding director of Cambridge Enterprise, and the University’s first Director of Postdoctoral Affairs.
From the Guardian website:
Contributions to Economics
21 January 1939- 19 March 2018 Peter Ault Tinsley, 79, the son of Rev. Benjamin William Tinsley, Sr. and Evelyn Ault Tinsley died peacefully at home on March 19, 2018 following a long illness.
Frank Hahn had a transformative impact on British economics wherever he went, building on his love of, and competence in, mathematics and greatly influenced by his numerous American colleagues.
Professor Kenneth Joseph Arrow (1921-2017), Founding Member, PASS
Frank Hahn first came to Cambridge as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Politics in 1960. He presented an intellectually terrifying figure whose brain worked many times faster than the time required for social niceties, but as his colleagues will testify, he also demonstrated a rare gift for friendship and loyalty.
Professor Arrow died on 21 February in Stanford, at age 95.
He began his academic career as Fellow of St. John's College, 1967-71, and returned to Cambridge in 1992 as Professor of Political Economy and Fellow of Churchill College before he became Warden of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, in 1994.
The funeral will be held on Friday 17 July, 2015.
A fuller account of his contributions to theoretical economics would require greater scholarship than I am able to master in the rush of our Newsletter's time table, but among Hahn's greatest achievements are his work (with Takashi Negishi) on the
Frank was originally appointed to a University Lectureship here and Fellowship at Churchill College in 1960 after a Readership at Birmingham.
Iain Macpherson, who has died aged 86, was an economic historian, a fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. The Telegraph have written an obituary of his life.
In 1980 he succeeded Brian Reddaway as Professor of Political Economy (Marshall’s Chair).
Phyllis Deane, Emeritus Professor of the Economics Faculty has been made the 2010 Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society, USA.