Agatha Chapman
Agatha Chapman (6 May 1907 – 17 October 1963) was an economist at the Canadian Bureau of National Statistics from 1942-47. She was the only female economist to attend the first United Nations sponsored meeting on national accounting in December 1945. She so impressed Richard Stone with her grasp of national accounting that he insisted her name be added to the official report of the meeting. She was ostracized from the Canadian Civil Service after her acquittal for 'aiding Soviet spies' in the Gouzenko affair. [1]
She went on to spend three years at Cambridge University when it was the epicentre of postwar national accounting. In 1953 her book, a study of British wages and salaries in the interwar period, was published by Cambridge University Press. She returned to Canada, where she committed suicide on 17 October 1963.
Works
- Agatha L. Chapman, Wages and salaries in the United Kingdom, 1920-1938 (1953)
References
- ^ "The trial and tribulations of Miss Agatha Chapman: statistics in a Cold War climate". The Free Library. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
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External links
- A biographical dictionary of women economists. Edward Elgar. 2000.
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