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Robert Rowthorn

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| school_tradition = Marxian economics

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| caption = Congress on Capitalism in the seventies, Tilburg, the Netherlands (1970). Left to right: Ernest Mandel, Herbert Gintis, Bob Rowthorn, Elmar Altvater and organiser Theo van de Klundert

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| birth_place = Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK

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| institution = University of Cambridge

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| alma_mater = Jesus College, Oxford
University of California, Berkeley
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| influences = Karl Marx

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Robert Rowthorn FAcSS FLSW (born 20 August 1939) is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and has been elected as a Life Fellow of King’s College.[http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/people/crsid.html?crsid=rer3&group=emeritus Emeritus Faculty], University of Cambridge[http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/about/annual-report-2009.pdf Annual Report], King’s College, 2009 He is also a senior research fellow of the Centre for Population Research at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford.

Life

Rowthorn was born in 1939 in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales. He attended Jesus College, Oxford reading mathematics. He took a post-graduate research fellowship at Berkeley again in mathematics. He returned to Oxford and switched to economics, taking a two-year B.Phil. He then worked at Cambridge as an economist.[https://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1130035 Interview of Robert Rowthorn] by Alan Macfarlane, 13 June 2008

He was an editor of the radical newspaper The Black Dwarf.Dworkin (1997) p. 282

He wrote many books and academic articles on economic growth, structural change and employment. His work was influenced by Karl Marx and critics of capitalism. He was a consultant to various UK government departments and private sector firms and organisations, and to international organisations such as the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Labour Organization.[http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2008/speaker_detail/1573/ Bob Rowthorn bio] from the Battle of Ideas website Many of his publications have a Marxist slant.Glyn (1980)

Rowthorn has been described by Susan Strange as being one of the few Marxists (another being Stephen Hymer) who is read in business schools.Strange (1997) p. 93

Among other things, he has identified the so-called paradox of costs, whereby higher real wages lead to higher profit margins.Rowthorn (1981)

In 2011, Rowthorn was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The Learned Society of |title=Robert Rowthorn |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/robert-rowthorn/ |access-date=2023-08-31 |website=The Learned Society of Wales |language=en-US}}

Selected works

= Books =

  • {{cite book | last = Rowthorn | first = Bob | title = Capitalism, conflict, and inflation: essays in political economy | url = https://archive.org/details/capitalismconfli0000rowt | url-access = registration | publisher = Lawrence and Wishart | location = London | year = 1980 | isbn = 9780853155393 }}
  • {{cite book | last = Rowthorne | first = Bob | title = Demand real wages and economic growth | publisher = Thames Polytechnic | location = London | date = Autumn 1981 | isbn = 9780902169173 }} Thames Papers in Political Economy.
  • {{cite book | last1 = Rowthorn | first1 = Robert E. | last2 = Wells | first2 = J.R. | title = De-industrialization and foreign trade | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge Cambridgeshire New York | year = 1987 | isbn = 9780521263603 }}
  • {{cite journal | last1 = Rowthorn | first1 = Robert E. | last2 = Ramaswamy | first2 = Ramana | title = Deindustrialization – its causes and implications | journal = IMF Working Paper | id = WP/97/42 | publisher = International Monetary Fund | date = September 1997 | url = http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/issues10/ }} [http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/issues10/issue10.pdf Pdf.]

= Book chapters =

  • {{citation | last = Rowthorn | first = Robert E. | contribution = What remains of Kaldor's Law? | editor-last = King | editor-first = John E. | editor-link = John E. King | title = Economic growth in theory and practice: a Kaldorian perspective | pages = 347–356 | publisher = E. Elgar Pub | location = Aldershot, England; Brookfield, Vermont | year = 1994 | isbn = 9781852789558 | postscript = .}}
  • {{citation | last = Rowthorn | first = Robert E. | contribution = A reply to Lord Kaldor's Comment | editor-last = King | editor-first = John E. | editor-link = John E. King | title = Economic growth in theory and practice: a Kaldorian perspective | pages = 363–367 | publisher = E. Elgar Pub | location = Aldershot, England; Brookfield, Vermont | year = 1994 | isbn = 9781852789558 | postscript = .}}
  • {{citation | last = Rowthorn | first = Robert E. | contribution = A note on Verdoorn's Law | editor-last = King | editor-first = John E. | editor-link = John E. King | title = Economic growth in theory and practice: a Kaldorian perspective | pages = 385–387 | publisher = E. Elgar Pub | location = Aldershot, England; Brookfield, Vermont| year = 1994 | isbn = 9781852789558 | postscript = .}}
  • {{citation | last = Rowthorn | first = Robert E. | contribution = Conflict, inflation and money | editor-last = Junankar | editor-first = P. N. | title = The economics of unemployment | pages = 119–143 | publisher = Edward Elgar Pub | series = The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, volume 122 | location = Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, Massachusetts | year = 2000 | isbn = 9781858982366 | postscript = .}}

= Journal articles =

  • {{Cite journal | last = Rowthorn | first = Robert E. | title = What remains of Kaldor's Law? | journal = The Economic Journal | volume = 85 | issue = 337 | pages = 10–19 | doi = 10.2307/2230525 | jstor = 2230525 | date = March 1975 }}Reprinted in: {{cite book | last = King | first = John E. | author-link = John E. King | title = Economic growth in theory and practice: a Kaldorian perspective | publisher = E. Elgar Pub | location = Aldershot, England Brookfield, Vermont, USA | year = 1994 | isbn = 9781852789558 }}{{rp|347–356}}

:: {{Cite journal | last = Kaldor | first = Nicholas | author-link = Nicholas Kaldor | title = Economic growth and the Verdoorn Law - a comment on Mr Rowthorn's article | journal = The Economic Journal | volume = 85 | issue = 340 | pages = 891–896 | doi = 10.2307/2230633 | jstor = 2230633 | date = December 1975 }}{{rp|357–362}}

:: {{Cite journal | last = Rowthorn | first = Robert E. | title = A reply to Lord Kaldor's comment | journal = The Economic Journal | volume = 85 | issue = 340 | pages = 897–901 | doi = 10.2307/2230634 | jstor = 2230634 | date = December 1975 }}{{rp|363–367}}

  • {{Cite journal | last = Rowthorn | first = Robert E. | title = Conflict, inflation and money | journal = Cambridge Journal of Economics | volume = 1 | issue = 3 | pages = 215–239 | publisher = Oxford Journals | date = September 1977 | url = http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/content/1/3/215.full.pdf+html }}{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Rowthorn | first = Robert E. | title = A note on Verdoorn's Law | journal = The Economic Journal | volume = 89 | issue = 353 | pages = 131–133 | doi = 10.2307/2231413 | jstor = 2231413 | date = March 1979 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last1 = Rowthorn | first1 = Robert E. | last2 = Wells | first2 = J.R. | title = Reply to Grazia letto-Gillies' 'Was deindustrialization in the UK inevitable? Some comments on the Rowthorn-Wells analysis' and Paul Auerbach's review of Rowthorn-Wells in International Review of Applied Economics | journal = International Review of Applied Economics | volume = 4 | issue = 2 | pages = 224–235 | doi = 10.1080/758523676 | date = June 1990 }}

:: In response to: {{Cite journal | last = letto-Gillies | first = Grazia | title = Was deindustrialization in the UK inevitable? Some comments on the Rowthorn-Wells analysis | journal = International Review of Applied Economics | volume = 4 | issue = 2 | pages = 209–223 | doi = 10.1080/758523675 | date = June 1990 }}

:: and: {{Cite journal | last = Auerbach| first = Paul | title = Review: Rowthorn, R.E. and Wells, J.R. 1987: De-industrialization and foreign trade | journal = International Review of Applied Economics | volume = 3 | issue = 1 | pages = 115–121 | doi = 10.1080/758532015 | date = January 1989 }}

  • {{Cite journal | last1 = Rowthorn | first1 = Robert | last2 = Ramaswamy | first2 = Ramana | title = Efficiency wages and wage dispersion | journal = Economica | volume = 58 | issue = 232 | pages = 501–514 | doi = 10.2307/2554695 | jstor = 2554695 | date = November 1991 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Rowthorn | first = Robert E. | title = Intra-industry trade and investment under oligopoly: the role of market size | journal = The Economic Journal | volume = 102 | issue = 411 | pages = 402–414 | doi = 10.2307/2234524 | jstor = 2234524 | date = March 1992 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Rowthorn | first = Robert E. | title = Centralisation, employment and wage dispersion | journal = The Economic Journal | volume = 102 | issue = 412 | pages = 506–523 | doi = 10.2307/2234288 | jstor = 2234288 | date = May 1992 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Rowthorn | first = Robert E. | title = A Review of W. J. Baumol, S. A. B. Blackman and E. N. Wolff, Productivity and American Leadership: The Long View | journal = Review of Income and Wealth | volume = 38 | issue = 4 | pages = 475–495 | doi = 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1992.tb00456.x | date = December 1992 }} [http://www.roiw.org/1992/475.pdf Pdf.]
  • {{Cite journal | last1 = Rowthorn | first1 = Robert | last2 = Pagano | first2 = Ugo | author-link2 = Ugo Pagano | title = Ownership, technology and institutional stability | journal = Structural Change and Economic Dynamics | volume = 5 | issue = 2 | pages = 221–242 | ssrn = 934387 | doi = 10.1016/0954-349X(94)90003-5 | date = December 1994 | s2cid = 154401089 }}
  • {{cite journal | last1 = Rowthorn | first1 = Robert E. | last2 = Ramaswamy | first2 = Ramana | title = Growth, trade, and deindustrialization | journal = IMF Staff Papers | volume = 46 | issue = 1 | pages = 18–41 | publisher = International Monetary Fund | date = March 1999 | doi = 10.2307/3867633 | jstor = 3867633 | url = https://www.imf.org/external/Pubs/FT/staffp/1999/03-99/rowthorn.htm }} [https://www.imf.org/external/Pubs/FT/staffp/1999/03-99/pdf/rowthorn.pdf Pdf.]
  • {{Cite journal | last = Rowthorn | first = Robert E. | title = Returns to scale and the economic impact of migration: some new considerations | journal = Spatial Economic Analysis | volume = 4 | issue = 3 | pages = 329–341 | doi = 10.1080/17421770903114729 | date = September 2009 | bibcode = 2009SpEA....4..329R | s2cid = 154613561 }}

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References

  • Dworkin, Dennis. Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies, Duke University Press Books, 1997, {{ISBN|978-0822319146}}
  • Glyn, Andrew. [http://www.amielandmelburn.org.uk/collections/mt/pdf/80_06_29a.pdf Review] of Capitalism, Conflict and Inflation, Marxism Today, June 1980
  • Ietto-Gillies, Grazia. "Was Deindustrialization in the UK Inevitable? Some Comments on the Rowthorn-Wells Analysis", International Review of Applied Economics Vol. 4 (2). pp. 209–23. June 1990.
  • Mickiewicz, T; Zalewska, A. "De-industrialisation: Rowthorn and Wells' Model Revisited", Acta Oeconomica Vol. 56 (2). pp. 143–66. June 2006.
  • Strange, Susan. Casino Capitalism, Manchester University Press, 1997, {{ISBN|978-0719052354}}
  • Thirlwall, A. P. "Rowthorn's Interpretation of Verdoorn's Law", in Economic growth in theory and practice: A Kaldorian perspective. King, John E., ed., Elgar Reference Collection. International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Aldershot, UK: Elgar; distributed in the US by Ashgate, Brookfield, Vermont, pp. 392–94. 1994. Previously published 1980.

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