HICKS (Ursula K.)
The Finance of British Government 1920-1936.
The first published book by the distinguished public finance and development economist Ursula Kathleen Hicks, an expanded version of her thesis written under the supervision of Lionel Robbins at the London School of Economics. ‘Ursula stayed at LSE for seven years, during which time she received a B.Sc. in economics, wrote her MA thesis under the guidance of Lionel Robbins, and fell in with the lively young group of economists that had coalesced at the LSE, including Abba Lerner, Paul Sweezy, Nicholas Kaldor – and John Hicks, whom she married in 1935. During this period she founded, along with Lerner and Sweezy, the Review of Economic Studies, for which she served as managing editor for 28 years, from its first issue in October 1933, through October 1961’ (Jacobson, ‘Ursula Hicks’, in A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists, p. 212).
