D. H. MacGregor

David Hutchison MacGregor (1877, Monifieth, Angus, Scotland – 8 May 1953, Oxford, England) was a Scottish economist and Drummond Professor of Political Economy at All Souls College, Oxford, from 1921 to 1945.[1]

MacGregor was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh and graduated with first class honours in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in 1898. He then studied for a further degree in economics at Trinity College, Cambridge under Alfred Marshall; he gained a BA in 1901 and was elected President of the Cambridge Union the following year.[2] In 1904 he was elected a Fellow of Trinity.

From 1908 to 1919 MacGregor was Professor of Economic and Political Science at the University of Leeds. Between 1915 and 1918, he was in the British Army in France and Italy. In 1919 he became the Stanley Jevons Professor of Political Economy at Manchester and from 1921 to 1945 was Drummond Professor of Political Economy at Oxford.

Works

  • Industrial Combinations (1906).
  • The Evolution of Industry (1911).
  • Enterprise Purpose and Profit: Essays on Industry (1934).
  • Public Aspects of Finance (1939).
  • Economic Thought and Policy (1949).

Notes

  1. ↑ Professor Frederic S. Lee, ‘David H. MacGregor and the Marhsallian Tradition at Oxford, 1920-1945’
  2. ↑ MACGREGOR, David Hutchison. ukwhoswho.com. Who Was Who. 2018 (online ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
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