page_title: Andrew Glyn
section_title: Background
hierarchical_section_title: Andrew Glyn / Background
caption_attribution_description: English: Andrew Glyn's memorial stone at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
context_page_description: Andrew John Glyn was an English economist, University Lecturer in Economics at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Economics in Corpus Christi College. A Marxian economist, his research interests focused on issues of unemployment and inequality.
  He was Associate Editor of Oxford Review of Economic Policy. He was a consultant for the National Union of Mineworkers and for the International Labour Organisation.
context_section_description: Glyn was born in Tetsworth, Oxfordshire. He was the son of John Glyn, the 6th Baron Wolverton, of the Williams & Glyn's Bank banking dynasty. He attended Eton and went on to study economics at Oxford University before becoming a government economist from 1964 to 1966. He was appointed to a fellowship in economics at Corpus Christi where he worked for the rest on his life. During his time at Oxford he tutored both David and Ed Miliband: Ed Miliband's adviser Stewart Wood has described Glyn as Miliband's biggest intellectual influence.
  On 22 December 2007, he died of a brain cancer at the Sobell House hospice in Oxford.
caption: Andrew Glyn's memorial at Corpus Christi College
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