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Andrew Hughes Hallett
British economist (1947–2019)
Andrew Jonathan Hughes Hallett FRSE (1 November 1947 [1] – 31 December 2019 [2]) was a British economist. He was University Professor of Economics and Public Policy at George Mason University, Senior Research Fellow at Kings College (University of London) and Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews[3][4][5] He was also a member of the Scottish Growth Commission.
Andrew Hughes Hallett was educated at Radley College.[6] He graduated with a BA (Hons) in economics from the University of Warwick in 1969 and a MSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics in 1971. He was awarded a DPhil in economics by University of Oxford in 1976.[7][8]
He was a lecturer in economics at the University of Bristol from 1973 to 1977, associate professor of economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam from 1977 to 1985, and David Dale Professor of Economics at Newcastle University from 1985 to 1989.[9][10][11] In 1989, Hughes Hallett was appointed Jean Monnet Professor of Economics at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland, a post he held until 2002, when he became Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee. He was appointed to professorships in Economics and Public Policy at George Mason University and at the University of St Andrews in 2007. In 2016, he became Senior Research Fellow in Economics at Kings College (University of London) and Professor of Economics at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. Professor Hughes Hallett was also a visiting professor at Princeton University, Harvard University, Cardiff University, Free University of Berlin, and the Universities of Rome (Sapienza University of Rome), Paris and Milan.