Alexander Cairncross (economist)
- Alexander Cairncross (economist)
Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross (11 February 1911 – 21 October 1998), known as Alec Cairncross, was a British economist. He was the brother of the spy John Cairncross and father of journalist Frances Cairncross.
He was born in Lanarkshire and went to Hamilton Academy, then won a scholarship to Glasgow University, where he specialized in economics. He then went to Trinity College, Cambridge.
After taking a first in the Economic Tripos, he became a lecturer in economics, under the considerable influence of John Maynard Keynes (author of "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" and one of the leading lights of the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference, which saw the founding of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund).
During World War II most of his work was in the Ministry of Aircraft Production, where he rose to become Director of Programmes. In 1946 he served briefly on the staff of "The Economist", and subsequently became adviser to the Board of Trade. He was seconded to be the economic adviser to the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation in Paris in 1949. and he left to become Professor of Applied Economics at his old university, Glasgow, in 1951.
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