TY - BOOK AU - Button, Kenneth. TI - The value of applied economics: the life and work of Arthur SN - 9781786433657 U1 - 335.83BUT PY - 2017/// CY - Northampton PB - Edward Elgar Pub KW - Marx, Karl, 1818-1883; Anarchism; Anarchists N1 - ix, 406 p. ; 24 cm N2 - This biography of the applied English economist Arthur (A.J.) Brown, an English economist from the late 1930s to the 1980s, sets his work in the context of the Great Depression, the emergence of Oxford University as centre of applied economic research, the contraction of British colonialism in Africa, the enlarging of the UK university system, the post-war arms race, the UK joining the Common Market, and significant changes in the industrial structure of Britain ER -