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Hall retired shortly after Selwyn Lloyd's first budget in 1961. He was politically on the Left but thought Conservative governments managed the economy better. He favoured Keynesian deficit finance, but had grown increasingly worried about inflation. He had opposed ROBOT (the plan to float the pound
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in the early 1950s), but with the disappearance of the dollar shortage came to favour floating after all, although he never argued for it very strongly. He wanted an incomes policy, and came to feel that unemployment was too low and that British workers and managers were not efficient enough.
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as the Director of the Economic Section of the Cabinet Office of the British government; from 1953 until 1961 he was chief economic advisor to successive
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mining engineer. while his mother, Rose Helen, was a first-generation Australian, whose father, A.K. Cullen, was
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In 1932 he married Laura Margaret, daughter of G.E. Linfoot, an Oxford graduate and later a fellow of
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Arndt, H.M.; Bensusan Butt, D.M.; Swan, T.W. (1988), "An Appreciation of Robert Hall, 1901-1988",
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The Chancellors: A History of the Chancellors of the Exchequer, 1945-90
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Australian Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
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on 28 October 1969. In the 1970s and 1980s he served actively in the
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Rebirth of Britain : a symposium of essays by eighteen writers
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Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
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in 1926, he was appointed to an economics lectureship at
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An Economist Among Mandarins: A Biography of Robert Hall
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His father, Edgar Hall, was an 48:(6 March 1901 – 17 September 1988) was an 324:(Supplement). 6 June 1969. p. 5961. 304:(Supplement). 1 January 1954. p. 4. 284:(Supplement). 2 January 1950. p. 3. 112:1938-47 and a visiting fellow, 1961–64. 1825:Social Democratic Party (UK) life peers 250: 1845:Principals of Hertford College, Oxford 1716:Association for the Education of Women 1285:Politics & International Relations 1113:Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics 609:Principals of Hertford College, Oxford 258: 256: 254: 170:and Commonwealth of Australia, and of 560:Principal of Hertford College, Oxford 7: 1855:Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford 1810:Companions of the Order of the Bath 241:, London : Pan, 1964, pg.38.) 1850:20th-century Australian economists 1835:Life peers created by Elizabeth II 1815:Fellows of Trinity College, Oxford 1800:Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford 496:10.1111/j.1475-4932.1988.tb02076.x 466:The Robert Hall Diaries, 1954-1961 444:The Robert Hall Diaries, 1947-1953 387:Australian Dictionary of Biography 364:. 18 November 1969. p. 11056. 140:Companion of the Order of the Bath 37:Robert Lowe Hall, Baron Roberthall 14: 1761: 1750: 1749: 1088:Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 811: 344:. 9 October 1969. p. 10317. 166:, of Silverspur in the State of 1840:University of Queensland alumni 1290:Social Policy and Intervention 506:, Cambridge University Press, 182:, latterly as a member of the 1: 1636:Roger Bannister running track 1118:Medieval and Modern Languages 1392:Oxford University Innovation 133:Chancellors of the Exchequer 1721:Delegacy for Women Students 158:, Hall changed his name by 1871: 1805:Australian Rhodes Scholars 1589:Rugby League Varsity Match 210:Somerville College, Oxford 186:. 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Versailles
Rhodes scholar
KCMG
CB
Australian
Tenterfield
New South Wales
Australia
English
Scottish
Queensland
Ipswich State High School
University of Queensland
Rhodes scholar
University of Oxford
Modern Greats
Trinity College, Oxford
Nuffield College, Oxford
Ministry of Supply
Washington, D.C.
Board of Trade
James Meade
Chancellors of the Exchequer
Companion of the Order of the Bath
1950 New Year Honours
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
1954 New Year Honours
life peer
Deed Poll

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