JONES, John Harry
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23rd April 1881 to 23rd April 1973
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Jones was an economist who served for twenty-seven years as professor of economics at the University of Leeds.
Jones was born in Wales in 1881. He was educated at the University of Wales in Cardiff, graduating in 1903. He went on to study economics in Leipzig and Berlin, then returned to the UK where he lectured at the University of Liverpool and the University of Glasgow. During the First World War he was attached to the Ministry of Munitions, and later to the Ministry of Labour. In 1919 he took up the post of professor of economics at the University of Leeds and remained there until he retired in 1946. Jones also served on a number of royal commissions. He died in 1973.
Jones was politically on the left-wing, and his economics were moderate socialist in nature, though he seems not to have followed any particular school such as guild socialism or the Fabians. His best known book, Social Economics, sets out his views. He was strongly in favour of free trade, a theme which runs through several of his Rowntree lectures.
Major works
The Economics of War and Conquest: An Examination of Mr Norman Angell’s Economic Doctrines, 1915.
Social Economics, 1920.
The Economics of Private Enterprise, 1946.
Original Source
‘Business outlook’, 20 September 1923, Balliol College
‘The effect of our monetary policy on peace and prosperity’, April 1925, Balliol College
‘How can one measure industrial efficiency?’, September 1927, Balliol College
‘The changing industrial situation’, April 1929, Balliol College