Phyllis Deane


Phyllis Mary Deane FBA was a British economic historian and a historian of economic thought.

Career

Deane worked at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research between 1941 and 1948. She left there to join the Colonial Office. She left there for Cambridge where she taught and researched since 1950 and was an emeritus professor of economic history until her death in 2012. She was 93 years old.

Work

Her first book was in 1953, titled Colonial Social Accounting. Her other noted works include British Economic Growth 1688–1959, which A. J. H. Latham describes as "a milestone in British economic history, and indeed in economic history in general".

Highest-level elected and appointed academic posts

She was president of the Royal Economic Society from 1980–82 and was a Fellow of the British Academy.

Key works