# Brian Reddaway > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Brian_Reddaway > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Brian_Reddaway.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reddaway > Source revision: 1175741645 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|English economist and academic (1913–2002)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''William Brian Reddaway''', [CBE](/source/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire), [FBA](/source/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy) (8 January 1913 – 23 July 2002) was an English economist and academic. == Biography == Born on 8 January 1913, he was the son of the historian [William Fiddian Reddaway](/source/William_Fiddian_Reddaway), who was a [fellow](/source/Fellow_(Oxbridge)) of [King's College, Cambridge](/source/King's_College%2C_Cambridge).[R. C. O. Matthews](/source/Robin_Matthews_(economist)), [https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-77063 "Reddaway, (William) Brian"], ''[The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/The_Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography)'' (online ed., [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), 2008). Retrieved 1 April 2021. He attended [King's College School, Cambridge](/source/King's_College_School%2C_Cambridge), [Lydgate House](/source/Lydgate_House) in [Hunstanton](/source/Hunstanton), and [Oundle School](/source/Oundle_School) before [matriculating](/source/Matriculation) at King's College, Cambridge, in 1931, with a [scholarship](/source/scholarship). He read [mathematics](/source/mathematics) and was placed in the first class for part 1 of the [Tripos](/source/Tripos),[Ajit Singh](/source/Ajit_Singh_(economist)), [https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/1722/138p285.pdf "William Brian Reddaway, 1913–2002"], ''[Proceedings of the British Academy](/source/Proceedings_of_the_British_Academy)'', vol. 138 (2006), p. 288. before switching to [economics](/source/economics) in which he came top in his year for part 2. He was taught by [Richard Kahn](/source/Richard_Kahn%2C_Baron_Kahn), [J. M. Keynes](/source/John_Maynard_Keynes) and [Gerald Shove](/source/Gerald_Shove). After graduating in 1934, he worked at the [Bank of England](/source/Bank_of_England), during which time he visited the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) and produced a book on its financial system. In 1936, he was appointed to a research fellowship in economics at the [University of Melbourne](/source/University_of_Melbourne), where he worked under [L. F. Giblin](/source/Lyndhurst_Giblin). He gave evidence to the [Commonwealth Arbitration Court](/source/Commonwealth_Court_of_Conciliation_and_Arbitration) in which he advocated for Australian miners' wages to be increased; when this was approved (as the 1937 Basic Wage Judgement), it was informally called the "[Reddawage](/source/Reddawage)".Singh (2006), pp. 288–289.[G. C. Harcourt](/source/G._C._Harcourt), "Reddaway, [William] Brian (1913–2002)", in G. C. Harcourt (ed.), ''On Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays: Selected Essays of G. C. Harcourt'' ([Palgrave Macmillan](/source/Palgrave_Macmillan), 2012), p. 296. Reddaway left the university in 1938 to take up a fellowship at [Clare College, Cambridge](/source/Clare_College%2C_Cambridge), where he remained until 2002.Singh (2006), p. 285. He was also appointed a [lecturer](/source/lecturer) in the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) in 1939. He worked at the [Board of Trade](/source/Board_of_Trade) during the [Second World War](/source/World_War_II) (where he developed clothes [rationing](/source/Rationing_in_the_United_Kingdom) and worked as a [statistician](/source/statistician)), returning to his academic duties in 1947. He was director of the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge from 1955 to 1969. He was also promoted to a [readership](/source/Reader_(academic_rank)) in 1957 and to the [Professorship of Political Economy](/source/Professor_of_Political_Economy_(Cambridge)) in 1969, in which chair he remained until he retired in 1980. Reddaway produced studies of government [tax](/source/tax)ation and [foreign direct investment](/source/foreign_direct_investment) policy during the 1960s and 1970s, while also studying [development](/source/Development_economics) in a range of other countries. He was elected a [fellow of the British Academy](/source/fellow_of_the_British_Academy) in 1967, served as the co-editor of ''[The Economic Journal](/source/The_Economic_Journal)'' from 1971 to 1976,Singh (2006), p. 300. and was appointed a [CBE](/source/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire) in 1971 for his services as a member of the [National Board for Prices and Incomes](/source/National_Board_for_Prices_and_Incomes).[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/45384/supplement/5965/data.pdf ''Supplement to the London Gazette''], 12 June 1971 (no. 45384), p. 5965. Reddaway died on 23 July 2002; his wife Barbara Augusta, ''née'' Bennett (with whom he had four children), had died in 1996.Singh (2006), pp. 289, 306. == References == {{Reflist|30em}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Reddaway, Brian}} Category:1913 births Category:2002 deaths Category:English economists Category:People educated at Oundle School Category:Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Category:Academic staff of the University of Melbourne Category:Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge Category:Professors of Political Economy (Cambridge, 1863) Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Category:Fellows of the British Academy --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Brian Reddaway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reddaway) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reddaway?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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