Alan Coddington (27 November 1941 – 8 June 1982) was an English academic who made significant contributions to the field of

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in the areas of

collective bargaining Collective bargaining is a process of negotiation between employers and a group of employees aimed at agreements to regulate working salaries, working conditions, benefits, and other aspects of workers' compensation and labour rights, rights for ...

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, and

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. Coddington was born in

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, got his BSc degree in 1963 from

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, and DPhil in 1966 from

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. He took up teaching at the

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, in 1966, where he remained until his death in London in 1982, aged just 40. At that institution, he built his reputation in the area of Keynesian Economics. His focus was on first principles, in which he added notable contributions to the Keynesian literature such as hydraulic Keynesianism, which established that there are stable macroeconomic flow inherent in the Keynesian system for its functioning in the policy area, without having to fall back on accounting flows. Coddington methodological contribution to economics was based on positive economics, where his presentation of the propositions as Stylize Facts has help to popularize the methodology. He contribution in bargaining theory was not just to recite the Cournot or Nash behavioral assumptions in economics, but to seek new a new research program for the formation of agents action-reaction behavior.

References

*Alan Coddington. (1968), Economics Theories of the Bargaining Process. Chicago: Aldine. *Alan Coddington. (1983), Keynesian Economics: The Search for First Principles. Allen and Unwin. *Alan Coddington. (1972), Positive Economics. Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science., Vol. 5., No 1., pp. 1–16. *Source: (2004). The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists, edited by D. Rutherford, R. Backhouse et al., Continuum 2010. Online. {{DEFAULTSORT:Coddington, Alan 1941 births 1982 deaths Academics of Queen Mary University of London Alumni of the University of Leeds Alumni of the University of York English economists People from Doncaster