Robert "Bob" Rowthorn (born 20 August 1939) is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and has been elected as a Life Fellow of King’s College. He is also a senior research fellow of the Centre for Population Research at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford.

Contents

• 1 Life
• 2 Selected works
  • 2.1 Books
  • 2.2 Book chapters
  • 2.3 Journal articles
• 3 Notes
• 4 References

Life

Rowthorn was born in 1939 in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales. He attended Jesus College, Oxford reading mathematics. He took a post-graduate research fellowship at Berkeley again in mathematics. He returned to Oxford and switched to economics, taking a two-year B.Phil. He then got a job at Cambridge as an economist.

He was an editor of the radical newspaper The Black Dwarf.

He has aut*d many books and academic articles on economic growth, structural change and employment. His work has been influenced by Karl Marx and critics of capitalism. He has worked as a consultant to various UK government departments and private sector firms and organisations, and to international organisations such as the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Labour Organization. Many of his publications have a Marxist slant.

Rowthorn has been described by Susan Strange as being one of the few Marxists (another being Stephen Hymer) who is read in business schools.

Among other things, he has identified the so-called paradox of costs, whereby higher real wages lead to higher profit margins.

Selected works

Books

• Rowthorn, Bob (1980). Capitalism, conflict, and inflation: essays in political economy. London: Lawrence and Wishart. ISBN:9780853155393.
• Rowthorne, Bob (Autumn 1981). Demand real wages and economic growth. London: Thames Polytechnic. ISBN:9780902169173. Thames Papers in Political Economy.
• Rowthorn, Robert E.; Wells, J.R. (1987). De-industrialization and foreign trade. Cambridge Cambridgeshire New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN:9780521263603.
• Rowthorn, Robert E.; Ramaswamy, Ramana (September 1997). "Deindustrialization – its causes and implications". IMF Working Paper. International Monetary Fund. WP/97/42. Pdf.

Book chapters

• Rowthorn, Robert E. (1994), "What remains of Kaldor's Law?", in King, John E. (ed.), Economic growth in theory and practice: a Kaldorian perspective, Aldershot, England Brookfield, Vermont, USA: E. Elgar Pub, pp.:347–356, ISBN:9781852789558.
• Rowthorn, Robert E. (1994), "A reply to Lord Kaldor's Comment", in King, John E. (ed.), Economic growth in theory and practice: a Kaldorian perspective, Aldershot, England Brookfield, Vermont, USA: E. Elgar Pub, pp.:363–367, ISBN:9781852789558.
• Rowthorn, Robert E. (1994), "A note on Verdoorn's Law", in King, John E. (ed.), Economic growth in theory and practice: a Kaldorian perspective, Aldershot, England Brookfield, Vermont, USA: E. Elgar Pub, pp.:385–387, ISBN:9781852789558.
• Rowthorn, Robert E. (2000), "Conflict, inflation and money", in Junankar, P. N. (ed.), The economics of unemployment, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, volume 122, Cheltenham, UK Northampton, M*achusetts, USA: Edward Elgar Pub, pp.:119–143, ISBN:9781858982366.

Journal articles

• Rowthorn, Robert E. (March 1975). "What remains of Kaldor's Law?". The Economic Journal. 85 (337): 10–19. doi:10.2307/2230525. JSTOR:2230525.: 347–356 

Kaldor, Nicholas (December 1975). "Economic growth and the Verdoorn Law - a comment on Mr Rowthorn's article". The Economic Journal. 85 (340): 891–896. doi:10.2307/2230633. JSTOR:2230633.: 357–362 Rowthorn, Robert E. (December 1975). "A reply to Lord Kaldor's comment". The Economic Journal. 85 (340): 897–901. doi:10.2307/2230634. JSTOR:2230634.: 363–367 

• Rowthorn, Robert E. (September 1977). "Conflict, inflation and money". Cambridge Journal of Economics. Oxford Journals. 1 (3): 215–239.
• Rowthorn, Robert E. (March 1979). "A note on Verdoorn's Law". The Economic Journal. 89 (353): 131–133. doi:10.2307/2231413. JSTOR:2231413.
• Rowthorn, Robert E.; Wells, J.R. (June 1990). "Reply to Grazia letto-Gillies' 'Was deindustrialization in the UK inevitable? Some comments on the Rowthorn-Wells *ysis' and Paul Auerbach's review of Rowthorn-Wells in International Review of Applied Economics". International Review of Applied Economics. 4 (2): 224–235. doi:10.1080/758523676.

In response to: letto-Gillies, Grazia (June 1990). "Was deindustrialization in the UK inevitable? Some comments on the Rowthorn-Wells *ysis". International Review of Applied Economics. 4 (2): 209–223. doi:10.1080/758523675.and: Auerbach, Paul (January 1989). "Review: Rowthorn, R.E. and Wells, J.R. 1987: De-industrialization and foreign trade". International Review of Applied Economics. 3 (1): 115–121. doi:10.1080/758532015.

• Rowthorn, Robert; Ramaswamy, Ramana (November 1991). "Efficiency wages and wage dispersion". Economica. 58 (232): 501–514. doi:10.2307/2554695. JSTOR:2554695.
• Rowthorn, Robert E. (March 1992). "Intra-industry trade and investment under oligopoly: the role of market size". The Economic Journal. 102 (411): 402–414. doi:10.2307/2234524. JSTOR:2234524.
• Rowthorn, Robert E. (May 1992). "Centralisation, employment and wage dispersion". The Economic Journal. 102 (412): 506–523. doi:10.2307/2234288. JSTOR:2234288.
• Rowthorn, Robert E. (December 1992). "A Review of W. J. Baumol, S. A. B. Blackman and E. N. Wolff, Productivity and American Leadership: The Long View". Review of Income and Wealth. 38 (4): 475–495. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1992.tb00456.x. Pdf.
• Rowthorn, Robert; Pagano, Ugo (December 1994). "Ownership, technology and ins*utional stability". Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. 5 (2): 221–242. doi:10.1016/0954-349X(94)90003-5. S2CID:154401089. SSRN:934387.
• Rowthorn, Robert E.; Ramaswamy, Ramana (March 1999). "Growth, trade, and deindustrialization". IMF Staff Papers. International Monetary Fund. 46 (1): 18–41. Pdf.
• Rowthorn, Robert E. (September 2009). "Returns to scale and the economic impact of migration: some new considerations". Spatial Economic *ysis. 4 (3): 329–341. doi:10.1080/17421770903114729. S2CID:154613561.

Notes

References

• Dworkin, Dennis. Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies, Duke University Press Books, 1997, ISBN:978-0822319146
• Glyn, Andrew. Review of Capitalism, Conflict and Inflation, Marxism Today, June 1980
• Ietto-Gillies, Grazia. "Was Deindustrialization in the UK Inevitable? Some Comments on the Rowthorn-Wells *ysis", International Review of Applied Economics Vol. 4 (2). pp.:209–23. June 1990.
• Mickiewicz, T; Zalewska, A. "De-industrialisation: Rowthorn and Wells' Model Revisited", Acta Oeconomica Vol. 56 (2). pp.:143–66. June 2006.
• Strange, Susan. Casino Capitalism, Manchester University Press, 1997, ISBN:978-0719052354
• Thirlwall, A. P. "Rowthorn's Interpretation of Verdoorn's Law", in Economic growth in theory and practice: A Kaldorian perspective. King, John E., ed., Elgar Reference Collection. International Library of Critical Writings in Economics. Aldershot, U.K.: Elgar; distributed in the U.S. by Ashgate, Brookfield, Vt. pp.:392–94. 1994. Previously Published 1980.