John Christopher Roderick Dow, FBA (1916–1998) was a British applied economist whose career ran from 1945 until his death in 1998. He was educated at Bootham School, York and

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. During his career he worked in some of the major British economic institutions, serving as Senior Economic Adviser to the UK Treasury, Deputy Director of the

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, Assistant Secretary General of the

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, and as Executive Director of the

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. Dow's achievements as an economist were recognized with the award of a Fellowship of the

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(1982).McMahon, Kit (1998) Obituary: Christopher Dow, Friday, 4 December 1998, The Independent

Major publications

*''Major Recessions: Britain and the World, 1920-1995'' (Oxford, 1999, ), published posthumously *''Inside the Bank of England: Memoirs of Christopher Dow''

References

Additional sources

Dow, J. C. R., Graham Hacche, and C. T. Taylor. (2012). ''Inside the Bank of England memoirs of Christopher Dow, Chief Economist, 1973-84''. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan People educated at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School 1916 births 1998 deaths People educated at Bootham School 20th-century British economists Fellows of the British Academy {{UK-economist-stub