Evan Durbin

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.

Evan Durbin

MP
Durbin, c.1930s
Born(1906-03-01)1 March 1906
Died3 September 1948(1948-09-03) (aged 42)
NationalityBritish
Academic career
InstitutionLondon School of Economics
FieldMacroeconomics
School or
tradition
Market socialism
Alma mater
Influences

Historian David Kynaston described Durbin as "the Labour Party's most interesting thinker of the 1940s and arguably of the twentieth century".

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