Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson

Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson MBE (26 May 1909 – 12 April 2003) was an English economist.

Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson
Born26 May 1909
Eastbourne, Sussex
Died12 April 2003
Málaga
NationalityBritish
Other namesBaroness von Schlippenbach (upon marriage)
OccupationEconomist, economic historian
Parent(s)George Grice-Hutchinson

Early life and education

Marjorie Eileen Henrietta Grice-Hutchinson was born in 1908, in Eastbourne, Sussex, the daughter of George Grice-Hutchinson and Edith Louise Eastwick Grice-Hutchinson.[1] Her father was a solicitor, and a Member of Parliament before she was born. When her father retired to Málaga in 1920, Grice-Hutchinson went with him.[2]

She earned a degree in Spanish at the University of London, and completed a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics, under the supervision of Friedrich Hayek and R. S. Sayers.[3]

Career

Grice-Hutchinson is best known for her work on the history of economic thought in Spain, and particularly that of the late Scholastic School of Salamanca.[4][5] She also wrote a history of the English Cemetery in Málaga, and endowed an agricultural research program at the University of Málaga.[6]

In 1993 she was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Complutense University of Madrid. She became a Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society in 1995.[3] She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1975, and in Spain she was named to the Order of Civil Merit.[6] In 1996 she was awarded the Premio Castilla y León de las Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades.[7]

Personal life

Grice-Hutchinson became the Baroness von Schlippenbach in 1951, when she married Ulrich von Schlippenbach, a German-born agronomist who resided in Málaga, She was widowed when von Schlippenbach died in the 1980s. She lived in Málaga until her death in 2003, aged 93 years.[6] She was buried there, in the English Cemetery.[2][8] Her book The School of Salamanca was reprinted in 2009 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute.[3]

Selected works
  • The School of Salamanca; Readings in Spanish Monetary Theory, 1544-1605 (1952)[9]
  • Malaga Farm (1956)[10]
  • Children of the Vega: Growing up on a Farm in Spain (1963)[11]
  • Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1177-1740 (1978)[12]
  • Economic Thought in Spain: Selected Essays (1993)[13]
  • The English Cemetery at Málaga (2001)[14]
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References
  1. "Person Page: Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson". The Peerage. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  2. Navas, Leonardo Cervera (2008). "My Family Memories of Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson in Malaga, Southern Spain". The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 67 (4): 535–546. doi:10.1111/j.1536-7150.2008.00587.x. ISSN 0002-9246. JSTOR 27739727.
  3. Ryan, Christopher K. (2010). "Working with Larry Moss and Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson". The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 69 (1): 85–89. doi:10.1111/j.1536-7150.2009.00696.x. ISSN 0002-9246. JSTOR 40607744.
  4. "Muere la hispanista Marjorie Grice Hutchinson". Diario Córdoba. 14 April 2003. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
  5. Smith, Robert S. (1953). "The School of Salamanca: Readings in Spanish Monetary Theory, 1544–1605. By Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952. Pp. xii, 134. $2.50". The Journal of Economic History. 13 (1): 108. doi:10.1017/S0022050700070133. ISSN 1471-6372.
  6. Barry, Norman (1 September 2003). "The Loss of a Scholar: Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson | Norman Barry". FEE. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  7. "Premios Castilla y León 1996". Junta de Castilla y León (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  8. "Marjorie Grice Hutchinson; Historian Who Sold Málaga to the Masses". The Sunday Times. 8 May 2003. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  9. Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie (1952). The School of Salamanca: Readings in Spanish Monetary Theory, 1544-1605. Clarendon Press.
  10. Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie (1956). Malaga Farm. Hollis & Carter.
  11. Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie (1963). Children of the Vega: Growing Up on a Farm in Spain. Wheaton.
  12. Kirshner, Julius (1 June 1980). "Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1177-1740. Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson Price and Value in the Aristotelian Tradition. Odd Langholm". The Journal of Modern History. 52 (2): 292–295. doi:10.1086/242102. ISSN 0022-2801.
  13. Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie (1993). Economic Thought in Spain: Selected Essays. E. Elgar. ISBN 978-1-85278-868-1.
  14. Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie (2001). The English Cemetery at Malaga. Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson.
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