| Title |
The Papers of Sir Austin Robinson |
| Reference |
GBR/0014/ROBN |
| Creator |
Robinson, Sir Edward Austin Gossage, 1897-1993, Knight Economist |
| Covering Dates |
1945–1959 |
| Extent and Medium |
77 archive boxes |
| Repository |
Churchill Archives Centre |
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| Content and context |
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Austin Robinson was born in Farnham, Surrey, in November 1897. He was educated at Marlborough and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he read classics.
He served in the RNAS and the RAF (1917-19) and was subsequently a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (1923-26), a Cambridge University lecturer (1929-49) and Professor of Economics at Cambridge (1950-65). He was appointed Emeritus Professor of Economics in Cambridge in 1966 and was a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College (1931-93).
As well as his academic career Robinson was a Member of the Economic Section, War Cabinet Office (1939-42), Economic Adviser and Head of Programmes, Ministry of Production (1942-45), Member of British Reparations Mission, Moscow and Berlin (1945), Economic Adviser to Board of Trade (1946),
Member of Economic Planning Staff (1947-48), Director of Economics, Ministry of Power (1967-68), Chairman of Council of National Institute of Economic and Social Research (1949-62) and Member of European Advisory Commission (OEEC) (1957-60).
He is best known for his books The Structure of Competitive Industry (1931) and Monopoly (1941), But also served as Assistant Editor and then Joint Editor of the "Economic Journal" (1948-70), Secretary of the Royal Economic Society and Treasurer (1950-59) and then President (1959-62) of the International Economic Association. Robinson was also one of the editors of the thirty volumes of JM Keynes's Collected Writings.
He was made OBE (1944) and CMG (1947), Knighted in 1975, and elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1955. Robinson married Joan Violet Maurice in July 1926, herself a distinguished economist. He died in June 1993.
Papers relating to the Ministry of Production in World War II; the Board of Trade and HM Treasury, Marshall Aid, and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The papers were presented to Churchill Archives Centre by Sir Austin Robinson and by the Marshall Library of Economics, Cambridge, between 1986-99.
The Papers are owned by Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Access and Use
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The collection is mostly open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Churchill Archives Centre is open from Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm. A prior appointment and two forms of identification are required.
Researchers wishing to publish excerpts from the papers must obtain prior permission from the copyright holders and should seek advice from Archives Centre staff.
Please cite as Churchill Archives Centre, The Papers of Sir Austin Robinson, ROBN
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| Further information |
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See also: Robinson's economic Papers 1926-1980 concerning India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge); letters to his wife, Joan Violet Robinson (King's College Archives Centre, Cambridge); a large number of economics and personal papers at the Marshall Library of Economics, Cambridge [http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/marshlib/].
A copy of this finding aid is available for consultation at Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, at the National Register of Archives, and on the Janus website http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/ A fuller list is available at Churchill Archives Centre.
This collection (fonds) level description and summary catalogue was prepared by Andrew Riley of Churchill Archives Centre in March 2005. Information was obtained from "Who Was Who" (A and C Black).
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| Index Terms |
| Economics |
| Robinson, Sir Edward Austin Gossage (1897-1993) Knight, economist |
| Churchill/ROBN contains: |
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1
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Economic Section of War Cabinet Office 1939-42. |
1939–1942 |
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2
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Ministry of Production 1942-45. |
1942–1945 |
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3
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Ministry of Production, Stages II & III, 1944 (Planning for end of war with Germany). |
1944–1945 |
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4
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Reparations mission 1945. |
1944–1945 |
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5/1-8
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Board of Trade 1946. Papers produced as Economic Adviser to the Board of Trade. Including notes for the Permanent Secretary relating to economic planning and economic adviser's functions. |
1945–1953 |
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6
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Economic Planning Staff 1947-48. |
1947–1952 |
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7
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Marshall Aid 1948. |
1947–1949 |
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8
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OEEC Projects 1955-59. |
1955–1959 |
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Additional box 1
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General papers (accession 950, files 1-5). Including papers relating inter alia to the Ministry of Production, manpower resources etc.
1 archive box. |
ca. 1941-ca. 1947 |
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Additional box 2
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General papers (accession 950, files 6-12). Including papers relating inter alia to nuclear power, an international conference on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy (1955), economists group reports etc.
1 archive box. |
ca 1947-ca 1955 |
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Additional box 3
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General papers (accession 950, files 13-26). Including papers relating inter alia to Economic Survey (1947/8), cost of living index, the marginal land committee and coal and energy production.
1 archive box. |
1947–1956 |
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Additional box 4
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General papers (accession 950, files 27-35). Including papers relating inter alia to Economic Survey (1948), "1948 Long Term Demand for Steel", "The right size of British Agriculture", undated; and Board of Trade papers on the location of industry, 1949.
1 archive box. |
1945–1949 |
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Additional box 5
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General papers (accession 950, files 36-42). Includes papers on the Allied Commission on Reparations; papers relating to the Organisation for European Economic Co-Operation.
1 archive box. |
1942–1955 |
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Additional box 6
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General papers (accession 950, files 43-45). Includes reports by the Organisation for European Economic Co-Operation.
1 archive box. |
circa 1950 |
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Additional box 7
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General papers (accession 950, files 46-51). Includes papers relating to food consumption, balance of payments, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
1 archive box. |
circa 1939-circa 1948 |
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Additional box 8
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Advisory Council Papers (accession 1055). File 1 DSIR Advisory Council - set of papers for the meeting on Wednesday 20th October 1954. File 2 DSIR Advisory Council - set of papers for the meeting on Wednesday 3rd November 1954. File 3 DSIR Advisory Council - set of papers for the meeting on Wednesday 15th December 1954. File 4 DSIR Advisory Council - set of papers for the meeting on Wednesday 18th May 1955. File 5 DSIR Advisory Council - set of papers for the meeting on Wednesday 20th July 1955. File 6 DSIR Advisory Council - set of papers for the meeting on Thursday 16th February 1956. File 7 DSIR Advisory Council: Industrial Grants Committee - set of papers for the meeting on Wednesday 20th October 1954. |
1954–1956 |
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Additional box 9
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Advisory Council: Industrial Grants Committee Papers 1954-1956; and Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Research Council Papers, 1956-59 (accession 1055). File 8 DSIR Advisory Council: Industrial Grants Committee - set of papers for the meeting on Wednesday 15th December 1954. File 9 DSIR Advisory Council: Industrial Grants Committee- set of papers for the meeting on Wednesday 1st February 1956. File 10 DSIR Research Council: set of papers for the meeting on Thursday 13th December 1956. File 11 DSIR Research Council: set of papers for the meeting on Thursday 9th May 1957. File 12 DSIR Research Council: set of papers for the meeting on Thursday 10th July 1958. File 13 DSIR Research Council: set of papers for the meeting on Thursday 9th April 1959. |
1954–1959 |
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Additional box 10
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Research Council: Economics Committee Papers 1957-58 (accession 1055). File 14 DSIR Research Council: Economics Committee - set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 12th November 1957. File 15 DSIR Research Council: Economics Committee - set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 17th December 1957. File 16 DSIR Research Council: Economics Committee - set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 21st January 1958. File 17 DSIR Research Council: Economics Committee - set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 18th February 1958. |
1957–1958 |
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Additional box 11
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Research Council: Economics Committee Papers 1957-59 (accession 1055). File 18 DSIR Research Council: Economics Committee - set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 20th May 1958. File 19 DSIR Research Council: Economics Committee - set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 24th June 1958. File 20 DSIR Research Council: Economics Committee - set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 14th October 1958. File 21 DSIR Research Council: Economics Committee - set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 16th December 1958. File 22 DSIR Research Council: Economics Committee - set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 20th January 1959. File 23 DSIR Research Council: Economics Committee - set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 17th March 1959. File 24 DSIR Research Council: Economics Committee - set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 21st April 1959. |
1958–1959 |
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Additional box 12
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Research Council: Economics Committee Papers 1959; Human Sciences Committee Papers 1958-1959; and Industrial Grants Committee Papers 1958 (accession 1055). File 25 DSIR Research Council: Economics Committee - set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 12th May 1959. File 26 DSIR Research Council: Economics Committee- set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 9th June 1959. File 27 DSIR Research Council: Economics Committee- set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 14th July 1959. File 28 DSIR Research Council: Human Sciences Committee- set of papers for the meeting on Thursday 9th December 1958. File 29 DSIR Research Council: Human Sciences Committee- set of papers for the meeting on Tuesday 7th April 1959. File 30 DSIR Research Council: Human Sciences Committee- set of papers for the meeting on Wednesday 20th May 1959. File 31DSIR Research Council: Industrial Grants Committee- set of papers for the meeting on Thursday 27th March 1958. |
1959 |
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Additional box 13
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Research Council: Industrial Grants Committee Papers 1958-1959 (accession 1055). File 32 DSIR Research Council: Industrial Grants Committee- set of papers for the meeting on Thursday 22nd May 1958. File 33 DSIR Research Council: Industrial Grants Committee- set of papers for the meeting on Thursday 22nd January 1959. File 34 DSIR Research Council: Industrial Grants Committee- set of papers for the meeting on Thursday 28th May 1959. |
1958–1959 |
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Additional box 14
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Research Council: Stations Committee Papers 1957; Papers on Other Meetings and Conferences 1951-1951; Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Correspondence 1956-1960 (accession 1055). File 35 DSIR Research Council: Stations Committee, set of papers for the meeting on Thursday 5th December 1957. File 36 National Institute Executive Committee meeting, financial papers 13 March 1951. File 37 Research and Industrial Productivity: a working conference organised by DSIR in association with the British Productivity Council, conference programme and conference papers 22nd 25th November 1954. File 38 DSIR, notes on a joint meeting of representatives of the Industrial Grants Committee and the Human Sciences Committee on 10 February 1959. File 39 DSIR Council (1954-1959), correspondence 1956-1959. |
1951–1959 |
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Additional box 15
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Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Correspondence 1956-1960 (accession 1055). File 40 DSIR Ministry of Education, correspondence 1956-1960. File 41 DSIR Economics, correspondence 1957-1959. File 42 DSIR Human Sciences (1954-1959), correspondence 1957-1959. |
1959–1960 |
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Additional box 16
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Associated Reports 1956-1959 (accession 1055). File 43 Report on the Oil Palm Industry of Sierra Leone, Mr. G. A. Petch, 1956. File 44 Report on the Social Aspects of Maltese Agriculture, Professor Rev. R. Cirillo, Royal University of Malta, July 1959. |
1956–1959 |
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