St Edmund's College, Cambridge

St Edmund's College is pleased to announce the third in a series of biennial lectures in memory of the late Professor G.L.S. Shackle.

'Uncertainty and Imagination, Illusion and Order: Shackleian Connections'

The invited speaker is:

Professor Brian Loasby, Emeritus and Honorary Professor, Division of Economics, Stirling Management School, University of Stirling.

To be held at 5.00pm on Thursday 4th March 2010 at the Faculty of Law in Lecture Room LG17, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ. All are welcome. Entry is free. A reception will be held following the lecture and refreshments will be provided.

Enquiries: please contact the Master's Secretary (masters.office@st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk) Tel: 01223 336122.


About the Speaker:

Professor Brian Loasby BA (Cambridge), M.Litt., MA (Cambridge) 1998
Emeritus and Honorary Professor

Assistant in Political Economy, University of Aberdeen, 1955-58, Bournville Research Fellow, University of Birmingham 1958-61, Tutor in Management Studies, University of Bristol 1961-67, (as Arthur D Little Management Fellow, with Arthur D Little Inc., Cambridge, Mass. 1965-66), Lecturer in Economics, University of Stirling 1967-68, Senior Lecturer 1968-71, Professor of Management Economics 1971-84, Emeritus and Honorary Professor 1984-

Member of Council, Royal Economic Society 1981-86, Member of Council, Scottish Economic Society 1977-87, President, Scottish Economic Society 1987-90, Vice-President, Scottish Economic Society 1990-2003, Member of International Advisory Board, Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics 1995- 2008, Vice-President, International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society 2000-2004, Member of Advisory Board, Graz Schumpeter Centre, 2007 -

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Professor G.L.S. Shackle was Brunner Professor of Economic Science at the University of Liverpool from 1951 to 1969 and Emeritus Professor until he died in March 1992. In 1967 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy and in 1976 gave the Keynes Lecture at the British Academy.