Name Ursula Hicks | ||
Died 1985, Blockley, United Kingdom Books British public finances | ||
Ursula Kathleen Webb Hicks (1896–1985) was an Irish-born economist and academic.
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Early life
She was daughter of William and Isabella Webb, born in Dublin on 17 September 1896. She was educated at Roedean and Somerville College, University of Oxford. Her post-graduate study was at the London School of Economics where she was a lecturer.
She married fellow academic Sir John Hicks.
Academic career
Ursula Hicks was a renowned public finance and development economist. Hicks was also one of the founders of the Review of Economic Studies and Managing Editor there from 1933 to 1961. She was a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford, where a building is named after her.
Her 1946 paper argued against economic usefulness of the distinction between direct taxes and indirect tax (as to who the nominal payer is) versus taxes on income and expenditures (outlays), a distinction now recognized in national accounting.
Lady Hicks received an Honorary Fellowship at the Institute of Social Studies in 1967.