Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh

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Thomas Balogh, Baron Balogh (birth name: Tamás Balogh ; born November 2, 1905 in Budapest , † January 20, 1985 in Hampstead, London Borough of Camden ) was a Hungarian- born British economist , university professor and Labor Party politician who , among others almost forty years Economics at University College London and at Balliol College of University of Oxford taught in 1968 as a Life peer due to the Life peerages Act 1958 a member of the House of Lords was and 1974-1975 Minister of State was in the Department of energy.

Life

Balogh, whose father was the head of the traffic authorities in Budapest, began studying at the University of Budapest after attending the model high school in Budapest , which he later continued at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . During his studies in Germany, he wrote some economic works in German . Between 1928 and 1929 he graduated as a Fellow with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to be hosted at Harvard College in Massachusetts .

In 1934, Balogh was lecturer in economics at University College London (UCL) and taught there until 1940. On January 26, 1938, he acquired British citizenship through naturalization . In addition, he took a position as a lecturer at Balliol College at the University of Oxford as early as 1939, where he last taught economics as a reader until 1973. In addition to his many years of teaching and research, he has written numerous specialist books such as The Cause of Poverty , which has been translated into several other languages.

By a letters patent dated June 20, 1968, Balogh was raised to the nobility as a Life Peer with the title Baron Balogh , of Hampstead in Greater London, under the Life Peerages Act 1958 and was thus a member of the House of Lords until his death . In 1974 he became Minister of State at the Department of Energy ( Department of Energy ) in of Prime Minister Harold Wilson formed government of the Labor Party and has held this position until 1975. As Minister of State, he was one of the closest aides of the then Energy Minister ( Secretary of State for Energy ) Eric Varley .

Publications

  • The National Economy of Germany , 1938
  • Investment Trusts and Investment Companies: Letter from the Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission Transmitting, Pursuant to Law, a Report on Investment Trusts in Great Britain , co-author Ernest Doblin, 1939
  • Investment Trusts and Investment Companies. Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission: Pursuant to Section 30 of the Public Utility Holding Company Set of 1935. Investment Trusts in Great Britain , co-author Ernest Doblin, 1939
  • New Plans for International Trade , co-authors Ernst Friedrich Schumacher and Michał Kalecki , 1943
  • Discrimination, British Trade Problems and the Marshall Plan , 1948
  • Fundamental Disequilibrium and Devaluation , 1948
  • Germany: An Experiment in Planning by the Free Price Mechanism , 1950
  • 6. Studies in financial organization , 1950
  • The Inappropriateness of Simple "elasticity" Concepts in the Analysis of International Trade , co-author Paul Streeten , 1951
  • The Economic Problems of Malta: An Interim Report , co- authored by Dudley Seers , 1955
  • The Dollar Crisis Revisited , 1955
  • Some aspects of economic growth of under-developed areas , 1962
  • Unequal Partners , (2 volumes The theoretical framework and Historical Episodes ), 1963
  • Planning for progress: a strategy for labor , 1963
  • The Economic Impact of Monetary and Commercial Institutions of a European Origin in Africa , 1964
  • Notes on the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development , 1964
  • Towards Socialism , co-authors Richard Crossman , Perry Anderson u. a., 1965
  • Crisis in the Civil Service , 1968
  • Government Measures to Support Private Overseas Investment in Less Developed Countries , 1969
  • Planning for the second development decade , 1970
  • Two Reviews of the Pearson Report: Pearson and Jackson , co-author Paul Streeten, 1970
  • Do Investment Models Apply to Developing Nations? , Co-author Paul Streeten, 1970
  • Labor and Inflation , 1970
  • The Cause of poverty , new edition 1971
  • Exchange Rates Expansion and Incomes Policy , 1971
  • The economics of poverty , 2nd edition 1974
  • Aid and World Instability , 1977
  • The Limitation of the "Safety Net" , 1977
  • The Dollar Crisis , 1978
  • Necromancy and After , 1978
  • Oil and the Budget , 1978
  • The Transfer Problem Revisited: Analogies Between the Reparations Payments of the 1920s and the Problems of the OPEC Surpluses , co-author, Andrew Graham, 1979
  • The irrelevance of conventional economics , 1982
  • Fact and fancy in international economic relations: an essay on international monetary reform , co-author Peter Balacs, 1975
in German language
  • The rationalization of banking in Germany , 1928
  • Federal Reserve Policy and Credit Market in the United States , 1929
  • International economic Relations. Doctrine and Reality , 1973

Background literature

  • June Morris: The Life and Times of Thomas Balogh: A Macaw Among Mandarins , 2007, ISBN 1-84519-153-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 34479, HMSO, London, February 4, 1938, p. 729 ( PDF , accessed September 18, 2013, English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 44618, HMSO, London, June 21, 1968, p. 6975 ( PDF , accessed September 18, 2013, English).
  3. ^ Google Books
personal data
SURNAME Balogh, Thomas, Baron Balogh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tamás Balogh (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economist, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1985
Place of death Hampstead, London Borough of Camden