Sir_George_Paish
George Paish
British economist (1867–1957)
Sir George Paish (7 November 1867 – 1 May 1957)[1][2] was a British liberal economist of international renown,[3] author of The Defeat of Chaos (1941), as well as Railways in Great Britain (1904), and co-author of Road To Prosperity in 1927.[4] He advocated the free market prior to the First World War,[5] and was at one point advisor to the head of the British Treasury.[6] He also served for a time as co-president of the Anglo-Ethiopian Society.[7]
He was the assistant editor of The Statist magazine from 1894 to 1900[8] and later became the editor.[9]