Evan Durbin
Evan Durbin | |
|---|---|
Durbin, c. 1930s | |
| Born | 1 March 1906 Bideford |
| Died | 3 September 1948 (aged 42) Crackington Haven |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Influences | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Macroeconomics |
| School or tradition | Market socialism |
| Institutions | London School of Economics |
Evan Frank Mottram Durbin (1 March 1906 – 3 September 1948) was a British economist and Labour Party politician, whose writings combined a belief in central economic planning with a conviction that the price mechanism of markets was indispensable.
Durbin was an influential thinker on economic policy within the Labour Party. Historian David Kynaston described Durbin as "the Labour Party's most interesting thinker of the 1940s and arguably of the twentieth century".