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The Faculty of Economics was first created by Alfred Marshall in 1903, although the first notable Cambridge economist is considered to be Thomas Malthus.After Marshall, the faculty was home to Arthur Cecil Pigou, father of public economics, John Hicks, who pioneered the IS-LM model and general equilibrium theory, and John Maynard Keynes, father of modern macroeconomics. [1]
During the early history of the University of Cambridge, the title professor simply denoted a doctor who taught in the university, a usage that continues to be found in, for example, US universities. However, from the 16th century onwards in Cambridge it was used to denote those holding " chairs " that had been founded by the university in a ...
The largest academic subdivision of the university are the six schools; Arts and Humanities, Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Technology. The schools are then divided into faculties and departments.
As of October 2023, the department of economics with the most affiliated laureates in economic sciences is the University of Chicago, [6] [7] with 16 affiliated laureates. As of 2023, the institutions with the most PhD (or equivalent) graduates who went on to receive the prize are Harvard University and MIT (13 each), followed by the University ...
The Professorship of Political Economy is a permanently established professorship at the University of Cambridge, founded in 1863, and assigned to the Faculty of Economics. [1] The professorship was established in perpetuity following the retirement of George Pryme , who had been elected the first Professor of Political Economy at the ...
Ha-Joon Chang (/ tʃ æ ŋ /; Korean: 장하준; born 7 October 1963) is a South Korean economist and academic.Chang specialises in institutional economics and development, and lectured in economics at the University of Cambridge from 1990–2021 before becoming professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2022.
Ajit Singh (() 11 September 1940 – () 23 June 2015) was an Indian-born Professor of Economics at Cambridge University.One of the world's most renowned Indian-born economists, Singh made fundamental academic contributions in the areas of modern business enterprise, de-industrialisation in advanced and emerging economies and the globalisation of financial and product markets.
The University of Cambridge includes 31 semi-autonomous constituent colleges and over 150 academic departments, faculties, and other institutions organised into six schools. The largest department is Cambridge University Press & Assessment, which has £1 billion of annual revenue and reaches 100 million learners. [13]