Andrew Glyn

Hon. Andrew John Glyn (30 June 1943 – 22 December 2007) was an English economist, University Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Economics in Corpus Christi College. A Marxian economist, his research interests focused on issues of unemployment and inequality.

Andrew Glyn
Born	(1943-06-30)30 June 1943 Tetsworth, England
Died	22 December 2007(2007-12-22) (aged 64) Oxford, England
Nationality	British
Occupation(s)	Academic, economist
Academic work
Discipline	Economics
Sub-discipline	Unemployment, Economic inequality
Institutions	Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Notable works	Oxford Review of Economic Policy

He was Associate Editor of Oxford Review of Economic Policy. He was a consultant for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and for the International Labour Organisation.

Background

Glyn was born in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire.^[1] He was the son of John Glyn, the 6th Baron Wolverton, of the Williams & Glyn's Bank banking dynasty.^[2] He attended Eton and went on to study economics at Oxford University before becoming a government economist from 1964 to 1966.^[1] He was appointed to a fellowship in economics at Corpus Christi where he worked for the rest on his life.^[1] During his time at Oxford he tutored both David and Ed Miliband: Ed Miliband's adviser Stewart Wood has described Glyn as Miliband's biggest intellectual influence.^[3]

Andrew Glyn's memorial at Corpus Christi College

On 22 December 2007, he died of a brain cancer at the Sobell House hospice in Oxford.^[4]

Politics

In the 1970s and early 1980s Glyn was a member of the Trotskyist Militant tendency in Oxford, writing a pamphlet critiquing the 'Alternative Economic Strategy' of the Tribune group of MPs, Capitalist Crisis or Socialist Plan in 1978.^[5]

In 1984 Glyn wrote The Economic Case Against Pit Closures for the National Union of Mineworkers to counter the energy policy of the Thatcher government.^[5]

Published books

• Capitalism Unleashed. Oxford University Press, 2006.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]}
• Social democracy in neoliberal times : the left and economic policy since 1980. Oxford University Press, 2001.
• Colliery closures and the decline of the UK coal industry, with Stephen Machin. Oxford : Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford, 1996.
• The North, the South, and the environment : ecological constraints and the global economy, with V. Bhaskar. St. Martin's Press, 1995.
• A Million Jobs a Year. Verso, 1985.
• Capitalism Since World War II: The Making and Breakup of the Great Boom, with Philip Armstrong and John Harrison. Fontana, 1984. 2nd edition as Capitalism Since 1945, Blackwells 1991. Also translated into Chinese and Korean.
• The British Economic Disaster, with John Harrison. Pluto, 1980; (also translated into Japanese).
• British Capitalism, Workers and the Profit Squeeze, with Bob Sutcliffe. Penguin, 1972; also translated into Italian, German, and Japanese.
• Capitalism in crisis, with Robert B Sutcliffe. Pantheon Books, 1972.
• British capitalism, workers and the profits squeeze with Robert B Sutcliffe. Penguin, 1972.

Other published works

He published 36 peer-reviewed journal articles, many book chapters and a number of essays. He additionally wrote a number of magazine articles and newspaper columns, including those in The Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, and The New York Times.