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1. 1. Economics and International Studies: Staff members

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   Mark Blaug

2. 2. Economics and International Studies: Professor Mark Blaug

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   Mark Blaug Economics and International Studies: Professor Mark Blaug
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   Mark Blaug Professor Mark Blaug received his DSc honoris causa in March 1993.
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   Mark Blaug came to England in 1940 as a schoolboy, an exile from the Netherlands at the beginning of the war. He completed his formal education in the United States becoming an Assistant Professor at Yale University. Fortunately for us, however, he returned to the United Kingdom, taking posts at Manchester, the University of London Institute of Education, and (more recently) at Buckingham and Exeter.
   
   In his career, Professor Blaug has made contributions across a whole range of economic issues. His book Economic Theory in Retrospect transformed the way the history of economic thought was approached in university departments and thereby influenced the education of a whole generation of economists. As a scholar in this field Mark Blaug is unrivalled; but not content with these achievements, Blaug produced in 1980 a book on the methodology of economics which has become a standard reference point for students of that subject throughout the world.
   
   The philosophy of science and the sweep of intellectual progress are fitting subjects to accommodate the breadth of Mark Blaug's interests. But he has devoted attention to more specific issues of wide ranging social importance. He was one of the first economists to investigate the application of economic ideas to the process of education. From this interest came path breaking studies on the accumulation of human capital, on problems of measuring the social and private return to different types of education, on productivity in the field of education, on the problems of financing education, and the properties of different schemes for student vouchers or student loans. He has also played a major role in discussions on the economics of the performing and other arts.
   
   With this background in the economics of education it would perhaps not have been surprising if Mark Blaug had taken a scholarly and detached interest in the University of Buckingham when it was first founded. But his interest went much further. He was a member of the original Planning Board and became in 1977 the first external examiner in Economics. He thus was prepared to use his reputation to encourage and protect the fledgling University. He did not do so from afar. A regular visitor to the University and a consultant Professor after 1985, he attended staff seminars, gave enormous encouragement to individual staff members by reading their work and commenting upon it, by travelling to social events often at some inconvenience to himself, and by lifting the general morale of the academics here. There are many people on this platform today who will feel a very personal indebtedness to Mark Blaug and a particular pleasure that he is to receive this honorary degree."

3. 3. Economics and International Studies: Staff members

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   Published on: 11/5/2007   Last Visited: 12/15/2007

   Mark Blaug