Facts: - death place: crackington haven - caption: evan durbin , c. 1930s - influences: lionel cole , r. h. tawney , james meade , john robbins bowlby , solly zuckerman , susan isaacs , reginald bassett , g. d. h. - death date: 03 september 1948 - institution: london school of economics - field: macroeconomics - school tradition: market socialism - influenced: hugh gaitskell , anthony crosland - birth date: 01 march 1906 - name: evan durbin - color: red - nationality: united kingdom - image: evan durbin.jpg - birth place: bideford - alma mater: new 's school , exeter college , oxford , taunton school , hele Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of evan durbin .
evan frank mottram durbin -lrb- 1 march 1906 -- 3 september 1948 -rrb- was a british economist and left-wing politician , whose writings combined a belief in central economic planning with a conviction that the price mechanism of markets was indispensable .the historian david kynaston has described durbin as ' the labour party 's most interesting thinker of the 1940s and arguably of the twentieth century ' .