John Hicks

Sir John Hicks
Hicks in 1972
Born	John Richard Hicks (1904-04-08)8 April 1904 Warwick, England, UK
Died	20 May 1989(1989-05-20) (aged 85) Blockley, England, UK
Education	Balliol College, Oxford
Academic career
Institution	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge London School of Economics University of Manchester Nuffield College, Oxford
School or tradition	Neo-Keynesian economics
Influences	Léon Walras, Friedrich Hayek, Lionel Robbins, Erik Lindahl, John Maynard Keynes
Contributions	IS–LM model Capital theory, consumer theory, general equilibrium theory, welfare theory, induced innovation
Awards	Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1972)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Sir John Richard Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist. He is considered one of the most important and influential economists of the twentieth century. The most familiar of his many contributions in the field of economics were his statement of consumer demand theory in microeconomics, and the IS–LM model (1937), which summarised a Keynesian view of macroeconomics. His book Value and Capital (1939) significantly extended general-equilibrium and value theory. The compensated demand function is named the Hicksian demand function in memory of him.

In 1972 he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (jointly) for his pioneering contributions to general equilibrium theory and welfare theory.^[1]