Ralph George Hawtrey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ralph George Hawtrey

British economist

Date of Birth: 22-Nov-1879

Place of Birth: Slough, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 21-Mar-1975

Profession: economist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Sir Ralph George Hawtrey (22 November 1879, Slough – 21 March 1975, London) was a British economist, and a close friend of John Maynard Keynes.
He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the University of Cambridge intellectual secret society. He took a monetary approach towards the economic ups and downs of industry and commerce, advocating changes in the money supply through adjustment in the bank rate of interest, foreshadowing the later work of Keynes.
In the 1920s, he advocated what was later called the Treasury View.
He also advanced in 1931 the concept that became known as the multiplier, a coefficient showing the effect of a change in total national investment on the amount of total national income. It was his view that the botched attempt to restore the international gold standard led to the Great Depression.
He had played a key role in the Genoa Conference of 1922, which attempted to devise arrangements for a stable return to the gold standard.