CURRENT TOPICS
| Date | 01 February 1957 |
| Published date | 01 February 1957 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9485.1957.tb00219.x |
CURRENT TOPICS
THE third Annual General Meeting
of
the Scottish Economic Society
will be held in the College Rooms, The University, Glasgow, on
Wednesday, 20th March
1957.
Tea will be served to members at
5.15
p.m., and the business meeting will begin at
5.45
p.m. After the
formal business, the President, the Rt. Hon. Lord Bilsland, K.T., M.C.,
will address the Society.
The following note on social and economic research in progress
at Aberdeen is the third in the series for the Scottish universities.
Notes on work at Glasgow and Edinburgh were published in Volume
111.
No.
1,
and Volume
111,
No.
2.
Anyone who wishes more detailed
information about research at Aberdeen should write to the Secretary,
The Scottish Economic Society (Mr.
T.
A.
F.
Noble. Department of
Political Economy, King’s College, Aberdeen).
Those who read the note on the
Third Statistical Account
of
Scot-
land
in Volume
11,
No.
3
(October
1955)
will know that Aberdeen
University has accepted responsibility for editing and preparing for
publication the accounts
of
the northern counties, from Aberdeen and
Kincardine to the Outer Hebrides in the west and to Orkney and
Shetland in the north.
Up
to date, the main work has been on the
counties
of
Aberdeen, Inverness, Caithness and Sutherland, and it is
hoped to have ready
for
publication in
1957
the volume on the county
of Aberdeen, and in
1958
the volume on the county of Inverness.
Publications within the last year include a book on the relation
of ethics and economics, and articles on the economics of hydro-
electricity, on economic progress in underdeveloped areas, and on
problems of economic growth in Scotland in the eighteenth and nine-
teenth centuries. Work on the last two of these subjects is continuing,
and includes a detailed examination of Leverhulme’s schemes in Lewis
and Harris as a case study in the problems
of
underdeveloped areas.
Research is in progress on the economics of home ownership, on an
economic evaluation of the Forestry Commission’s policy in Great
Britain, as well as on maximum likelihood estimates for Tornqvist
demand curves.
The manuscript correspondence and official papers of leading
British statesmen of the period
1765
to
1815
are being examined with
special reference to economic and social issues. Other work in econo-
mic history includes the social and economic aspects
of
social medical
activities from
1740
to
1840,
and a study
of
economic growth, stagna-
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