Gender | Male |
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Weekday | Saturday |
Date | Feb. 11, 1911 |
Time | 4 a.m. |
Daylight Saving | No |
City | Lesmahagow, Scotland, United Kingdom |
Geo-location | 55ºN38'12.05", |
Timezone | Europe/London |
City | Lesmahagow, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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Timezone | Europe/London |
Time (Europe/London) | Feb. 11, 1911, 04:00:00 AM |
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Time (UTC) | Feb. 11, 1911, 04:00:00 AM |
Time (LMT) | Feb. 11, 1911, 03:44:27 AM |
Time (Julian) | 2419078.66666667 |
LMT Correction | -0.2592 Hrs |
Ayanmsha | True Chitra - 22º36'13.36" |
Scottish economist. 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. Cairncross was instrumental in founding the Scottish Economic Society and was, in 1954, the first editor of its Scottish Journal of Political Economy. He served as an economic adviser to the UK government (1961–64), Head of the Government Economic Service (1964–69) and Master of St Peter's College, Oxford (1969–78), Chancellor of the University of Glasgow (1972–96) Link to Wikipedia
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Oct. 21, 1998 |
Death, Cause unspecified 21 October 1998 . |