Agricultural Economics at Aberystwyth: Prof. E. F. Nash

Abstract

MR. E. F. NASH, who has been elected professor of agricultural economics and advisory economist in the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, has recently been serving in the Food and Agriculture Branch of the Control Commission in Germany, where he has had responsibility for agricultural and food prices in relation to the cost of living and the control of inflation. He was educated at the City of London School and, at University College, Oxford, where he held a classical scholarship. He took first class honours in Classical Moderations, Greats and Modern Greats. In 1927 he was awarded a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship and proceeded to the University of Chicago, where he studied economics. Afterwards he lectured in economics at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and in 1930 became staff tutor for extra-mural classes, University of Birmingham, where he lectured in economics and economic history. In 1930 he joined the staff of the Economic Intelligence Branch of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, and as member of that staff gained special experience of inquiries in the field of agricultural statistics and economics. He specialized in the study of agricultural development as affected by the course of international trade, commercial policy and political conditions. In 1939 he joined the Food (Defence Plans) Department, which on the outbreak of war became the Ministry of Food, where he was associated with numerous inquiries of an economic character, and continued with that Ministry until the early part of 1945. Although Mr. Nash has not had any personal associations with the agricultural industry, he has combined a wide experience of inquiries into the economics of agriculture, food supplies and prices, with previous experience of intra-and extra-mural teaching.