IN 1924 John Maynard Keynes, who invented macroeconomics, used a biographical essay about his mentor Alfred Marshall to muse on the qualities of a good economist. He must be mathematician, historian, ...

Robin Matthews was an economist of renown who spent a lifetime in the upper reaches of British academia, lecturing for decades at Oxford and Cambridge, with almost two decades as Master of Clare ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. For a group that has helped change the way economics is taught at universities up and down Britain, the Post-Crash ...