Encyclopedia > John Hicks

  Article Content

John Hicks

Sir John R. Hicks (Warwick, England, 1904 - 1989) was one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. Hicks was a professor at University of Oxford for most of his life and shared the Nobel Prize in 1972. He developed the famous "compensation" criteria called Kaldor-Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons in 1939.

See also



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Islip Terrace, New York

... As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 5,641. Geography Islip Terrace is located at 40°44'55" North, 73°11'11" West (40.748738, ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 21.9 ms