Burn , Duncan Lyell , 1902-1988 , journalist and economist

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        Born 1902; educated Holloway County School and Christ's College, Cambridge University; Lecturer in Economic History, University of Liverpool, 1925, and Cambridge University, 1927; worked at the Ministry of Supply (Iron and Steel Control), 1939; Member of the US-UK Metallurgical Mission, New York and Washington, 1943; Leader Writer and Industrial Correspondent, The Times, 1946-1962; Member of the Advisory Committee on Census of Production, 1955-1965; Member of the Executive Committee, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, 1957-1969; Director of the Economic Development Office set up by Associated Electrical Industries, English Electric, GEC and Parsons, 1962-1965; Member of the Economic Committee, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1963-1965; Lecturer, Bombay University, 1971; Specialist Advisor, House of Commons Select Committee on Energy, 1980-1988; died 1988.
        Publications: Chemicals under free trade: European and global options (Atlantic Trade Study, London, 1971); Realities of free trade: two industry studies (Allen and Unwin, 1972); The economic history of steelmaking, 1867-1939 (University Press, Cambridge, 1940); The political economy of nuclear energy: an economic study of contrasting organisations in the UK and USA (Institute of Economic Affairs, London, 1967); The Steel Industry, 1939-1959: a study in competition and planning (University Press, Cambridge, 1961); editor The structure of British industry (University Press, Cambridge, 1958); Nuclear power and the energy crisis: politics and the atomic industry (Macmillan, London, 1978).

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