Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson
Born26 May 1909
Eastbourne, East Sussex, England
Died12 April 2003
Málaga, Spain
NationalityBritish
Other namesBaroness von Schlippenbach (upon marriage)
Occupation(s)Economist, economic historian
ParentGeorge Grice-Hutchinson

Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson MBE (26 May 1909 – 12 April 2003) was an English economist.

Early life and education

Marjorie Eileen Henrietta Grice-Hutchinson was born in 1909, in Eastbourne, Sussex, the daughter of George Grice-Hutchinson and Edith Louise Eastwick Grice-Hutchinson.[1] Her father was a solicitor. When her father retired to Málaga in 1920, Grice-Hutchinson went with him.[2]

She earned a degree in Spanish at the University of London, and completed a Ph.D. at the London School of Economics, under the supervision of Friedrich Hayek and R. S. Sayers.[3]

Career

Grice-Hutchinson is best known for her work on the history of economic thought in Spain, and particularly that of the late Scholastic School of Salamanca.[4][5] She also wrote a history of the English Cemetery in Málaga, and endowed an agricultural research program at the University of Málaga.

In 1993, she was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Complutense University of Madrid. She became a Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society in 1995.[3] She was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1975, and in Spain she was named to the Order of Civil Merit. In 1996 she was awarded the Premio Castilla y León de las Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades.[6]

Personal life

Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson's grave at the English Cemetery in Málaga.

Grice-Hutchinson became the Baroness von Schlippenbach in 1951, when she married Ulrich von Schlippenbach, a German-born agronomist who resided in Málaga, She was widowed when von Schlippenbach died in the 1980s. She lived in Málaga until her death in 2003, aged 93 years. She was buried there, in the English Cemetery.[2][7] Her book The School of Salamanca was reprinted in 2009 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute.[3]


Selected works

  • The School of Salamanca; Readings in Spanish Monetary Theory, 1544-1605 (1952)[8]
  • Malaga Farm (1956)[9]
  • Children of the Vega: Growing up on a Farm in Spain (1963)[10]
  • Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1177-1740 (1978)[11]
  • Economic Thought in Spain: Selected Essays (1993)[12]
  • The English Cemetery at Málaga (2001)[13]

References

  1. ↑ Economía y economistas andaluces: (Siglos XVI al XX)
  2. 1 2 Navas, Leonardo Cervera (2008). "My Family Memories of Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson in Malaga, Southern Spain". The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 67 (4): 535–546. doi:10.1111/j.1536-7150.2008.00587.x. ISSN 0002-9246. JSTOR 27739727.
  3. 1 2 3 Ryan, Christopher K. (2010). "Working with Larry Moss and Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson". The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. 69 (1): 85–89. doi:10.1111/j.1536-7150.2009.00696.x. ISSN 0002-9246. JSTOR 40607744.
  4. ↑ "Muere la hispanista Marjorie Grice Hutchinson". Diario Córdoba. 14 April 2003. Retrieved 24 June 2012.
  5. ↑ Smith, Robert S. (1953). "The School of Salamanca: Readings in Spanish Monetary Theory, 1544–1605. By Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952. Pp. xii, 134. $2.50". The Journal of Economic History. 13 (1): 108. doi:10.1017/S0022050700070133. ISSN 1471-6372. S2CID 154987814.
  6. ↑ "Premios Castilla y León 1996". Junta de Castilla y León (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  7. ↑ "Marjorie Grice Hutchinson; Historian Who Sold Málaga to the Masses". The Sunday Times. 8 May 2003. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  8. ↑ Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie (1952). The School of Salamanca: Readings in Spanish Monetary Theory, 1544-1605. Clarendon Press.
  9. ↑ Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie (1956). Malaga Farm. Hollis & Carter.
  10. ↑ Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie (1963). Children of the Vega: Growing Up on a Farm in Spain. Wheaton.
  11. ↑ Kirshner, Julius (1 June 1980). "Early Economic Thought in Spain, 1177-1740. Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson Price and Value in the Aristotelian Tradition. Odd Langholm". The Journal of Modern History. 52 (2): 292–295. doi:10.1086/242102. ISSN 0022-2801.
  12. ↑ Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie (1993). Economic Thought in Spain: Selected Essays. E. Elgar. ISBN 978-1-85278-868-1.
  13. ↑ Grice-Hutchinson, Marjorie (2001). The English Cemetery at Malaga. Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson.
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