Barbara Ingham
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768368 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Ingham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Ingham |
| SIGNATURE | INGHAM B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sir Arthur Lewis: A Biography
Sir Arthur Lewis was the first development economist, the first Afro-Caribbean to hold a professorial chair at a British university and the first black man to win the Nobel prize for economics. However, he believed his contributions to the well-being of the poor through social and political activism were as important as his economics
Marvellous Intellectual Feasts: Arthur Lewis at the London School of Economics, 1933-48
This article is concerned with the decade and a half spent by the development economist Arthur Lewis at the London School of Economics between 1933 and 1948. It discusses the intellectual traditions of the institution that Lewis joined and the various influences on the young economist. His research and teaching roles in London and Cambridge are covered, together with his work for the Fabian Society and his links with the anti-imperialist movement…
Giving older workers a voice: Constraints on the employment of older people in the North West of England
This article contributes to the literature on older workers and employment, providing a regional perspective on the relationship between age and work. The study is based on interviews in conjunction with occupational-event calendars with 56 individuals in North West England. The primary aim was to gain in-depth understanding of perceived constraints that older people feel hinder their employment prospects within the context of their daily lives. …
Development Studies and Colonial Policy
The meaning of development: Interactions between “new” and “old” ideas
Instruments of Economic Policy in Africa
Shaping Opinion on Development Policy: Economists at the Colonial Office during World War II
Research Article| September 01 1992 Shaping Opinion on Development Policy: Economists at the Colonial Office during World War II Barbara Ingham Barbara Ingham 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (3): 689–710. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-24-3-689 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Ingham; Shaping Opinion on De…
Dudley Seers as a Development Adviser in Ghana and Malta
Dudley Seers had a long and distinguished career as economic adviser to governments in Asia, Africa and Latin America. This contribution examines Seers' early years as development adviser, in the period leading up to his 1963 article, ‘The limitations of the special case’. The primary focus of the paper is on Ghana, where Seers acted as adviser to both the colonial administration in its closing years, (The Seers and Ross Report), and to the gover…
Tropical Exports and Economic Development
Tropical Exports and Economic Development: New Perspectives on Producer Response in Three Low-Income Countries
An Alternative Interpretation
The question of the empirical validity of vent for surplus has been brought sharply into focus in recent years by accumulating evidence from fieldworkers in West Africa, that on a number of key issues the implications of vent for surplus, especially in its leisure-preference version, are at odds with the historical experience.1 All the writers discussed so far rely on a mixture of logical deduction and inference from statistical and other publish…
Other Cases: Nigeria and New Guinea
Two cases which lend themselves to the type of empirical investigation employed for Ghana cocoa are peasants’ exports from Nigeria and New Guinea. The point of contrast between these two cases which has influenced their selection, is the length of time each has been exposed to European contact. Like Ghana, Nigeria had traded with Europe first in slaves and later in palm produce, long before cocoa exports featured in the economy: At least two hund…
Peasants’ Exports and Economic Theory
For world trade the 1870s marked the beginnings of a spectacular rise in exports from tropical areas (Table 1.1). Demand for raw materials to be used in manufacturing industry came from the growing and prospering urban populations of North America and Europe, and tropical products such as palm oil, sisal, rubber and groundnuts were all essential ingredients of the industrial process in the late nineteenth century. Mineral exports, particularly go…
The Role of Money
The Ghana case invites us to focus more closely on the possible long-run role of money in peasants’ exports, because coincidental with the growth of cash crops for export during the nineteenth century was the introduction and rapid growth can be obtained from Table 4.1 (there are no separate data for Ghana — these figures relate to British West Africa, the Gold Coast plus Nigeria). Pressure for payment in silver came from the side of African prod…
The two World Wars and economic development: Editor's introduction
Vent for surplus reconsidered with Ghanaian evidence
Adam Smith's vent for surplus theory of international trade was revived by Myint in the 1950s and subsequently generated a number of new contributions on the nature of the trade‐growth relationship in traditional peasant economies under colonialism. The theme of this paper, which uses some empirical material from Ghana (Gold Coast) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is to suggest that economists have been too ready in their acceptan…
Ghana Cocoa farmers—income, expenditure relationships
This paper examines the hypothesis [Hill, 1963, 1971 pp. 21–29] that the cocoa farmer of Ghana is to be regarded as a rural capitalist rather than a stereotyped peasant producer. To test this, one aspect of entrepreneurial behaviour of particular interest to the economist is selected, viz. low marginal propensity to consume. The limited evidence on Ghana cocoa farmers’ income and expenditure is analysed to see whether these individuals do in fact…
Giving older workers a voice: Constraints on the employment of older people in the North West of England
This article contributes to the literature on older workers and employment, providing a regional perspective on the relationship between age and work. The study is based on interviews in conjunction with occupational-event calendars with 56 individuals in North West England. The primary aim was to gain in-depth understanding of perceived constraints that older people feel hinder their employment prospects within the context of their daily lives. …
The meaning of development: Interactions between “new” and “old” ideas
Shaping Opinion on Development Policy: Economists at the Colonial Office during World War II
Research Article| September 01 1992 Shaping Opinion on Development Policy: Economists at the Colonial Office during World War II Barbara Ingham Barbara Ingham 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (3): 689–710. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-24-3-689 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Ingham; Shaping Opinion on De…
Dudley Seers as a Development Adviser in Ghana and Malta
Dudley Seers had a long and distinguished career as economic adviser to governments in Asia, Africa and Latin America. This contribution examines Seers' early years as development adviser, in the period leading up to his 1963 article, ‘The limitations of the special case’. The primary focus of the paper is on Ghana, where Seers acted as adviser to both the colonial administration in its closing years, (The Seers and Ross Report), and to the gover…
Ghana Cocoa farmers—income, expenditure relationships
This paper examines the hypothesis [Hill, 1963, 1971 pp. 21–29] that the cocoa farmer of Ghana is to be regarded as a rural capitalist rather than a stereotyped peasant producer. To test this, one aspect of entrepreneurial behaviour of particular interest to the economist is selected, viz. low marginal propensity to consume. The limited evidence on Ghana cocoa farmers’ income and expenditure is analysed to see whether these individuals do in fact…
Vent for surplus reconsidered with Ghanaian evidence
Adam Smith's vent for surplus theory of international trade was revived by Myint in the 1950s and subsequently generated a number of new contributions on the nature of the trade‐growth relationship in traditional peasant economies under colonialism. The theme of this paper, which uses some empirical material from Ghana (Gold Coast) in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is to suggest that economists have been too ready in their acceptan…
Tropical Exports and Economic Development
Tropical Exports and Economic Development: New Perspectives on Producer Response in Three Low-Income Countries
An Alternative Interpretation
The question of the empirical validity of vent for surplus has been brought sharply into focus in recent years by accumulating evidence from fieldworkers in West Africa, that on a number of key issues the implications of vent for surplus, especially in its leisure-preference version, are at odds with the historical experience.1 All the writers discussed so far rely on a mixture of logical deduction and inference from statistical and other publish…
Other Cases: Nigeria and New Guinea
Two cases which lend themselves to the type of empirical investigation employed for Ghana cocoa are peasants’ exports from Nigeria and New Guinea. The point of contrast between these two cases which has influenced their selection, is the length of time each has been exposed to European contact. Like Ghana, Nigeria had traded with Europe first in slaves and later in palm produce, long before cocoa exports featured in the economy: At least two hund…
Peasants’ Exports and Economic Theory
For world trade the 1870s marked the beginnings of a spectacular rise in exports from tropical areas (Table 1.1). Demand for raw materials to be used in manufacturing industry came from the growing and prospering urban populations of North America and Europe, and tropical products such as palm oil, sisal, rubber and groundnuts were all essential ingredients of the industrial process in the late nineteenth century. Mineral exports, particularly go…
The Role of Money
The Ghana case invites us to focus more closely on the possible long-run role of money in peasants’ exports, because coincidental with the growth of cash crops for export during the nineteenth century was the introduction and rapid growth can be obtained from Table 4.1 (there are no separate data for Ghana — these figures relate to British West Africa, the Gold Coast plus Nigeria). Pressure for payment in silver came from the side of African prod…
The two World Wars and economic development: Editor's introduction
Dudley Seers as a Development Adviser in Ghana and Malta
Dudley Seers had a long and distinguished career as economic adviser to governments in Asia, Africa and Latin America. This contribution examines Seers' early years as development adviser, in the period leading up to his 1963 article, ‘The limitations of the special case’. The primary focus of the paper is on Ghana, where Seers acted as adviser to both the colonial administration in its closing years, (The Seers and Ross Report), and to the gover…
Shaping Opinion on Development Policy: Economists at the Colonial Office during World War II
Research Article| September 01 1992 Shaping Opinion on Development Policy: Economists at the Colonial Office during World War II Barbara Ingham Barbara Ingham 1 Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1992) 24 (3): 689–710. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-24-3-689 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Barbara Ingham; Shaping Opinion on De…
The meaning of development: Interactions between “new” and “old” ideas
Instruments of Economic Policy in Africa
Development Studies and Colonial Policy
Giving older workers a voice: Constraints on the employment of older people in the North West of England
This article contributes to the literature on older workers and employment, providing a regional perspective on the relationship between age and work. The study is based on interviews in conjunction with occupational-event calendars with 56 individuals in North West England. The primary aim was to gain in-depth understanding of perceived constraints that older people feel hinder their employment prospects within the context of their daily lives. …
Sir Arthur Lewis: A Biography
Sir Arthur Lewis was the first development economist, the first Afro-Caribbean to hold a professorial chair at a British university and the first black man to win the Nobel prize for economics. However, he believed his contributions to the well-being of the poor through social and political activism were as important as his economics
Marvellous Intellectual Feasts: Arthur Lewis at the London School of Economics, 1933-48
This article is concerned with the decade and a half spent by the development economist Arthur Lewis at the London School of Economics between 1933 and 1948. It discusses the intellectual traditions of the institution that Lewis joined and the various influences on the young economist. His research and teaching roles in London and Cambridge are covered, together with his work for the Fabian Society and his links with the anti-imperialist movement…
Economics (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Economic history (4 works) · International Development and Aid (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works)