Harold Howitt

Sir Harold Gibson Howitt, GBE, DSO, MC, FCA, JP, DL (5 October 1886 – 30 November 1969) was an English accountant who had, during the First World War, a distinguished military career and who undertook a long series of important public service commissions. Notable among these was his report on the reorganisation of the British pig industry.[1]

Air Council in session WWII IWM CH 966

Howitt was born in Nottingham, the son of Arthur Gibson Howitt. He was educated at Uppingham School.[2]

Selected publications
  • Development of pig production in the United Kingdom: report of the Advisory Committee on Development of Pig Production in the United Kingdom, HMSO, 1955
gollark: You can just hand out what some random people think is absolutely *needed* first, then stick the rest of everything up for public use, but that won't work either! Someone has to decide on the "needed", so you get into a planned-economy sort of situation, and otherwise... what happens when, say, the community kale farm decides they want all the remaining fertilizer, even when people don't want *that* much kale?
gollark: Planned economies, or effectively-planned-by-lots-of-voting economies, will have to implement this themselves by having everyone somehow decide where all the hundred million things need to go - and that's not even factoring in the different ways to make each thing, or the issues of logistics.
gollark: Market systems can make this work pretty well - you can sell things and use them to buy other things, and ultimately it's driven by what consumers are interested in buying.
gollark: Consider: in our modern economy, there are probably around (order of magnitude) a hundred million different sorts of thing people or organizations might need.
gollark: So you have to *vote* on who gets everything?

References
  1. Taplin, Walter (23 September 2004). "Howitt, Sir Harold Gibson (1886–1969), accountant". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001 (inactive 2020-05-24). Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  2. "Obituary: Sir Harold Howitt – Distinguished accountant who sat on many important tribunals". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 2 December 1969. p. 12.


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