CURRENT TOPICS
| Published date | 01 June 1956 |
| Date | 01 June 1956 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9485.1956.tb00814.x |
CURRENT TOPICS
THE second Annual General Meeting
of
the Scottish Economic Society
was held
in
Edinburgh
on
22nd March
1956.
Forty members were
present. Professor Sir Alexander Gray was prevented by illness from
giving the address after the business meeting, and it was resolved to
send him
a
message of good wishes from the Society. The Society
was fortunate in being able to secure Professor Cairncross in his place.
Professor Cairncross had arrived by air that morning from Washington,
where he is at present acting as Director of the Economic Develop-
ment Institute
of
the International Bank. His talk was appropriately
entitled
‘
Problems of Economic Development
’.
The Society has had a successful year. The number of individual
members has shown a slight increase, while the cost to the Society of
the
Scottish
Journal
of
Political
Economy
has come down, partly owing
to a large increase
in
sales to non-members of the Society. As
a
result,
the donation by the Scottish Universities, under their guarantee for
the
Journal,
has been reduced from
€256
on
Volume I to
€85
on
Volume
11.
The Society’s audited accounts for the financial year to
31st December
1955
were presented and approved at the A.G.M., and
are printed
on
pp.
169-70.
The increase
in
the activities
of
local branches gives promise of
recruitment of a wider membership. Six meetings were held in Edin-
burgh, five
in
cach
of
the three other big cities and four
in
St.
Andrews,
where the branch is
run
in
conjunction with the Political Economy
Club of the University. Many who attended the meetings and took
part
in
the discussions were not subscribing members of the Society,
and
it
is hoped that.
with
an even better programme to attract them
next winter, they
will
be induced to subscribe. The Society is grateful
for the
support
of five
of
the Scottish banks, which makes such a
programme possible.
In
the February issue we published the first of
a
series of notes
on
economic and social research
in
progress
in
Scotland. The note which
follows deals with current research
in
the University of Glasgow.
Much of the economic research at Glasgow
is
concerned with
problems
of
economic organisation. including shipbuilding, Scottish
banking. the water-supply industry and salaries
in
the public services.
Papers
on all these subjects have either been published recently or
are
in
preparation. A number
of
studies
on
industrial relations
in
the
west of Scotland are almost ready for publicatim. Most of them are
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