Alan T. Peacock

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Sir Alan Turner Peacock (born June 26, 1922 in Ryton-on-Tyne , † August 2, 2014 in Edinburgh ) was a British economist.

Life

During World War II , Peacock served as an intelligence officer in the Royal Navy . He served on various ships and worked on the decoding of Morse code for the German submarine fleet and air force. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his services .

As an economist , Peacock worked from 1947 at the London School of Economics and Political Science . From 1956 he took over a professorship for economics at the University of Edinburgh . From 1962 to 1978 he worked at York University , where he founded the Department of Economics (now the Department of Economics and Related Studies). From 1980 to 1984 Peacock served as Vice Chancellor of Buckingham University.

From 1971 to 1973 Peacock was a member of the Royal Commission on the Constitution. In the 1980s he was a leading protagonist in the cultural economy. When Margaret Thatcher wanted to abolish the license fee and finance the BBC's advertising, Peacock was appointed chairman of the Committee on the Financing of the BBC. The Peacock Committee was the 10th committee since 1923, which dealt with the further development of the British broadcasting system.

The committee's report was published in July 1986. Advertising funding from the BBC is rejected. Because of the report, the BBC was spared the originally intended reforms of the Thatcher administration. In 1985 Peacock founded the think tank David Hume Institute based in Edinburgh. Peacock has written about 30 books, including four autobiographical volumes. In 1979 he was elected a member ( Fellow ) of the British Academy . Since 1989 he was a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

Works (selection)

  • with Jack Wiseman: The Growth of Public Expenditure in the United Kingdom . National Bureau of Economic Research Number 72, 1961
  • Public Choice Analysis in Historical Perspective . Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, 1992
  • The Political Economy of Economic Freedom . Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1997

literature

  • GC Peden: Alan Turner Peacock, 1922-2014 . In: Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy . tape XIV , 2015, p. 495-516 ( thebritishacademy.ac.uk [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11011038/Professor-Sir-Alan-Peacock-obituary.html
  2. ↑ https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/christian-herzog-simon-worthington/scottish-independence-what-would-alan-peacock-have-sai
  3. ^ Towse, Ruth (2005) Alan Peacock and cultural economics . The Economic Journal 115: 262-276
  4. ↑ http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/historyofthebbc/committees_of_enquiry.pdf
  5. ↑ Potschka, Christian (2013) Broadcasting and market-driven politics in the UK and Germany: The Peacock Committee in comparative perspective . International Journal of Cultural Policy 19 (5): 595-609.
  6. ^ Review: Paul Kirchhof, The Financing of Public Broadcasting. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2010 .
  7. ^ O'Malley, Thomas and Jones, Janet (Eds.) (2009) The Peacock Committee and UK Broadcasting Policy . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  8. ^ Potschka, Christian (2012) Towards a Market in Broadcasting: Communications Policy in the UK and Germany . Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  9. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed July 15, 2020 .
  10. ^ Fellows: Sir Alan Turner Peacock. Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed July 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Peacock, Alan T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peacock, Alan Turner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economist
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Ryton-on-Tyne
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 2014
Place of death Edinburgh