Evan Durbin

Evan Durbin
Durbin, c. 1930s
Born(1906-03-01)1 March 1906
Died3 September 1948(1948-09-03) (aged 42)
NationalityBritish
Academic career
FieldMacroeconomics
InstitutionLondon School of Economics
School or
tradition
Market socialism
Alma mater
Influences

Evan Frank Mottram Durbin (1 March 1906 – 3 September 1948)[1] was a British economist and Labour Party politician, whose writings combined a belief in central economic planning with a conviction that the price mechanism of markets was indispensable.

Historian David Kynaston described Durbin as "the Labour Party's most interesting thinker of the 1940s and arguably of the twentieth century".